The Cry of Yara and Cuba's Liberty
One hundred and thirty-nine years ago, on October 10th, 1868, Carlos
Manuel de Céspedes at his sugar mill La Demajagua led what is known in
history as the Cry of Yara, which began an unsuccessful battle against
Spain for Cuba's freedom. In 1968, DIARIO LAS AMERICAS published a daily
box exalting the merits of that Cry of Yara interpreting the feelings of
the free press of Cuba which was abolished after January 1st, 1959, when
Fidel Castro's Marxist-Leninist revolution came into power.
Naturally, ever since Cuba ceased to be a republic almost forty-nine
years ago, the Cubans in exile, interpreting the feelings of the Cubans
who are inside the island subdued by the tyranny, remember with
patriotic emotion what the fight for Cuba's independence means. That
independence had a significant expression of love for country on October
10, 1868. The Cubans in exile, no matter where in the world they might
be, particularly those in the Greater Miami metropolitan area, remember
the greatness of that effort made with the Cry of Yara and reiterate
their unyielding faith in the restoration of the republic for which they
struggle albeit under adverse circumstances.
Those who fully and justly are identified with the cause of freedom for
José Martí's homeland, no matter what their nationality might be, join
the Cubans to proclaim the need that everyone endeavors to eradicate
from Cuba a tyranny with a worse system –there can be no comparisons –
than what there was in 1868. Actually, it is an obligation of human
solidarity and political morality to join all Cubans in the liberating
effort. That Calvary should not go beyond the forty-nine years which
will have gone by in two and a half months.
When one mentions the fact that the tyranny that now oppresses Cuba has
been in place for practically forty-nine years it seems impossible that
this could have happened, because no one could imagine on January 1959,
that so many mistakes made in the unrestricted support for that
revolution would mean a tragedy that goes beyond the meaning of time
because its intensity has surpassed all boundaries.
DIARIO LAS AMERICAS restates its wishes for the Cuban people to recover
their liberty and reiterates its decision to continue, as it has done up
to this writing, to stand by the Cubans in their liberating efforts.
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