MAY '20'' INDEPENDENCE DAY OF CUBA

INDEPENDENCE DAY OF CUBA

May 20 marks the Independence Day of the Republic of Cuba. After the longest history of bloody struggle against Spanish colonialism, the Cuban people went through several stages in their struggle for freedom and independence since the early nineteenth century, where the assertion of the Cuban nationality, increased trade and Creole economics required majority, exacerbating the crisis with the ideological war fomented by the Prophet of National Dignity Fr. Felix Varela (who formed in San Carlos Seminary a generation of thinkers and patriots among them Rafael Ma Mendive) teacher who was José Martí who was born in 1853 on the death of Varela as the relay exchange for leading the fight independence of the fatherland.
He followed the path of armed struggle after the stubbornness of the Spanish Crown to keep at all costs its last colony in Africa. Came the war of ten years in 1868 where great patriots pointed the way of sacrifice for the liberation and independence. Carlos Manuel de Cespedes, Ignacio Agramonte, Vicente Aguilera, Calixto Garcia, Antonio Maceo, Maximo Gomez, Tomas Estrada Palma, Manuel Sanguily, and other brave patriots ... It is clear that Cuba during the war always held a civil government of the Republic.
Chiquita continued the war in 1881, and the war of independence that began in 1895 to 1898 that after the bloody struggle against the colonial army Mambises Spanish, and the intervention of U.S. imperialism rising entering the war against Spain following the sinking of the battleship Maine, destruction of the obsolete Spanish fleet in Santiago de Cuba, taking the Caney with the decisive help of Calixto Garcia, and yet at the same General and his troops were not allowed to enter Santiago de Cuba. Cuba also (the glorious army mambí) are not allowed to participate in the Treaty of Paris in the surrender of the Spanish Crown (of the booty United States won the island of Guam, Puerto Rico, the Philippines) Cuba had a American intervention from 1898 to 1902 in the May 20 the Cuban flag be flown at the Morro Castle in Havana.
Cuba was born with an amendment in its constitution, the Platt Amendment which gave the U.S. right to intervene in Cuba, entitled to three naval bases in Cuba and the possession of the Isle of Pines, which was returned in 1922 after claims Cuban Congress.
But to any difficulties, Cuba was developed as a nation, and after initially not quite nice (the Mambí army was disarmed), United States kept his word and handed over power to the Cubans, who progression than its trade and economy reaching late 50's, with an advance and is the third country on the continent much of the advances, the standard of living, its education, public health, of agriculture, as well as light industry and food .

After a coup in 1952, to break the constitutional order, justified struggle by Fidel Kaxtro with a terrorist group of communist affiliation to seize power in 1959, which mysteriously was given by the flight of the dictator Batista, but the change did not return to legality, legitimacy and constitutionality to the people of Cuba. The conquests of the Cuban people in their first 57 years of the Republic took him to the forefront of the continent, today after 53 years of communist rule has placed in the rear of the continent. Cuba once again regain their freedom and independence with which  Fidel Castro and the Communist Party have taken the revenge of the Crown to punish the Cuban people