Call from Yara

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The reputation of Yara ( Spanish : Grito de Yara ) marks the beginning of Cuba's struggle for independence against the Spanish colonial power . Carlos Manuel de Céspedes released the slaves on his sugar hacienda in Yara and called for a fight against the Spaniards.

Historical background

On the night of October 9-10 , 1868, the Ten Years' War began in the Cuban sugar hacienda La Demajagua . At that time, Carlos Manuel de Céspedes announced the manifesto of the revolutionary government of the island of Cuba . It names the ideas and goals of the revolutionary movement, which aimed at the independence of Cuba, based on the equality of all people, whether blacks or whites, Spaniards or Cubans, and promoted by the pastor Félix Varela , the liberation of slaves .

Flag of the independence movement, first used during the call of Yara

The flag used by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes is inspired by the flag of Chile . It was designed by Candelaria Acosta ( Cambula ), while the star was drawn by Emilio Tamayo . The flag was used in the east of Cuba as the flag of the new republic in arms until the Asamblea de Guáimaro replaced the banner with the Narciso López version .

The original idea of ​​Carlos M. de Céspedes, later called Padre de la Patria ( Father of the Fatherland ), was to take the city of Manzanillo . The reason was not only the proximity to the place of the call, but above all the importance of this area. Due to the lack of element of surprise, the lack of combat experience of the subversive and the lack of firearms, this plan was abandoned. Even so, Céspedes' composition became the March of Manzanillo , a patriotic hymn intended to fuel the fighting spirit of the Manzanillo residents when the Manifesto of the Revolution was signed in Manzanillo, and not in the place where it is proven to be conjured up: the sugar hacienda La Demajagua .

At the end of the meeting held by Carlos Manuel de Céspedes in Demajagua , and in view of the impossibility of taking the port city of Manzanillo, the approximately 600 revolutionaries decided to march towards the Sierra de Naguas with the aim of increasing the number of insurgents . When they passed the city of Yara, however, they were dispersed by a Spanish unit from Bayamo.

The beginning of the Ten Years War was ultimately identified with Yara. Although the meeting and its aftermath initially went unnoticed, news of the failure of the Yara insurgents was later passed on to the press in Havana and Madrid by a general .

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