143 years have passed since Antonio Maceo and his brave soldiers bravely protested in Mangos de Baraguá before the Spanish military man Arsenio Martínez Campos, who wanted to pacify the Mambisa hosts, and put an end to the desire for freedom of the Cubans for which they had fought machete in hand more than nine years in the War of 68.

The transcendental act of disobedience motivated that in 1893, in a letter to Antonio Maceo, José Martí expressed to him: "Precisely I now have before my eyes the Protest of Baraguá, which is one of the most glorious in our history."

The event showed deep roots of the patriotic sentiment of the Cuban people who swore never to kneel, in the footsteps of the troops of the Liberation Army and the Bronze Titan, who knew how to rise up and adopt a position that morally saved the Revolution.

Guillermón Moncada, José Maceo, Flor Crombet, Limbano Sánchez, Arcadio Leyte Vidal, Belisario Grave de Peralta and Quintín Banderas, among others, were grouped around the courageous patriot. That is what can explain why Martínez Campos was so worried and wrote an interesting letter dated February 26, 1878, in which he says: Maceo asks me impossible.

By opposing the Pact of Zanjón, on March 15, 1878, the Bronze Titan, son of Santiago de Cuba, and his followers represent all worthy Cubans, who have learned to preserve integrity as a flag, by stating that Cuba is and it will be forever an eternal Baraguá.