Every March 15, present and past generations reward with dignity one of the most intransigent acts carried out in the Cuban insurgent camps and that the history includes as the Protest of Baraguá.
Some thought at that time, that the ten years of struggle against the Spanish metropolis initiated by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in the La Demajagua in 1868, were lost with the Pact of Zanjón, but the refusal of Major General Antonio Maceo and Grajales, in Mangos de Baraguá, gave new light to the libertarian desires of the Cuban patriots.
With legitimate pride, the children of this town have been challenging the blockade of the United States against Cuba for more than 5 decades. They remember and keep the expression of the Bronze Titan alive when, before the peace document, they told the Spanish General Martínez Campo: Keep this document, we do not want to know about it.
Antonio Maceo, machete in hand, with his irrevocable attitude of fighting, to keep the eternal Baraguá forever in the hearts of the Cuban people.
