“We remember Lieutenant General Antonio Maceo Grajales, the Bronze Titan, on the 129th anniversary of his death in combat,” Rodriguez commented in a message published in X.

He also noted that “his courage, his revolutionary principles, his intransigence, dignity, and patriotism continue to be an example for our revolutionary diplomacy in the defense of national sovereignty and independence.”

“His legacy lives on in the resistance and dignity of the Cuban people,” the head of Cuban diplomacy affirmed.

Antonio Maceo (June 14, 1845), nicknamed the Bronze Titan, was a Cuban military officer and politician who reached the ranks of major general and lieutenant general in the Liberation Army during the wars against the Spanish army.

Considered a great military strategist and tireless warrior, he also stood out for his ideals of justice, manifested in his meeting with Spanish General Arsenio Martinez Campos during negotiations for a pact between the warring forces, an event recorded in history as the Protest of Baragua.

He was killed in action on December 7, 1896, in San Pedro, in the former province of Havana, and his remains rest in El Cacahual monument west of Havana.

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