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• 10 / 11 / 2008

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He said the Revolution really emerged 140 years ago, when a group of Cubans expressed their commitment to fight for the total independence of the island.

Alarcon said the Cuban nation emerged in 1868 with the beginning of the longest, cruellest and most unequal wars of the American continent that ended with a painful defeat of the Spanish colonialists.

In that war (1868-1878), Spain drew up the largest army ever used in a war in the continent to fight the Cuban forces. And in the meantime, a new threat was emerging in the United States, where the government there waited for the right moment to seize the island.

Alarcon made reference to the provisional government founded by Cuban independence leader Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in the city of Bayamo between October, 1868 and the following January. During that term, a black man and a worker were part of a government for the first time and the people were directly involved in the government decisions. The methods used at that time became the foundations for the current people’s power assembly, explained Alarcon.

At the act held in the Manzanillo Theatre, the national president of the University Students Federation, Adalberto Hernandez, donated a copy of Cespedes’ higher studies dossier to the museum located in the birth place of the Cuban hero in Bayamo, in the eastern province of Granma

(ACN)