MambisesThe new generations remember each year an event that fills Cubans with pride, feeling the mambises blood in their veins. The historical site of Mala Noche gives an account of the traditions of the people's struggle and that fervent year 1895.

Without having lost the independence enthusiasm with the Zanjón pact in 1878, a significant group of Cubans kept the feelings of freedom since Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, the father of the Nation proclaimed in the Damajagua the beginning of the War of 1868 ant then through the well-known contends of the Chiquita War.

Faced with these realities, patriots such as General Antonio Maceo Grajales, Máximo Gómez, Calixto García, and others took on the task of organizing and directing the new contest to which the Delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, José Julián Martí Pérez, called the necessary war , sustained in the unity between the “new and old pines”.

In the redeeming jungle the independence fervor was maintained, and from Tampa in the United States, Martí decides to send the insurrectionary order of the uprising against the forces of the Spanish Crown, in a tobacco, through the Patriot Juan Gualberto Gómez, fact that history It collects in its annals as the "Grito de Baire" starring on February 24, 1895.

At the beginning of the last Cuban War of Independence against Spanish colonialism there were uprisings in 35 localities of the Island, among which was the former prefecture of Mala Noche, where the highest leaders of that time, fighters for the independence of Cuba.

A 123 years of those events, young people from the municipalities of Holguin and Calixto Garcia, meet in "Mala Noche" to the people, pay tribute to the heroes and martyrs and swear again to the Fatherland, eternal loyalty to his legacy of struggle and sacrifice for the freedom of Cuba.