Cubans recall beginning of Necessary War 130 years ago

The uprising of the liberation forces in eastern and the rest of Cuba 130 years ago started the Necessary War, organized by National Hero Jose Marti. 
 
The previous war ended in 1878 after 10 years of wars but did not achieve its emancipation objectives. It led Marti to prepare, from exile, as a delegate of the Cuban Revolutionary Party (PRC), a new war effort to achieve the island’s freedom and sovereignty.

To achieve his pro-independence objectives, Marti relied on the most outstanding figures of the previous heroic deeds and managed to structure a movement that responded to his orders in the context of a revolutionary situation in gestation, expressed in the sharpening of the leading colony-metropolis contradiction.

Several conditions of a social and political nature aggravated the conflict: the Cuban economy was still in crisis, the Spanish policy of high taxes continued, and the United States became the economic metropolis that, among other things, showed its interest in political territorial domination.

Despite the Cuban patriots’ sacrifices, the US intervention at the end of the 1898 war sabotaged the pro-independence objective and left Cuba under the political and economic domination of Washington, which imposed a mediatized republic.

A few decades later, the Necessary War inspired the fighters of the heroic deed led by Fidel Castro, who achieved the definitive independence of the island with the triumph of the Revolution on January 1, 1959.