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Marti Gomez and the Manifesto of Montecristi

By: Carlos Velázquez Hernández

In early February 1895, Martí knocked on the door of the Dominican strategist in the town of Montecristi, Máximo Gómez Báez, there comes to them confirmation that February 24 was turned on again flame of the revolution in Cuba. A month later, on March 25, signed the document known in the national history as Montecristi Manifesto, the Dominican town where it was signed.

The manuscript, a cornerstone of the revolution of 95, became the Program organized by Marti Necessary War, emphasized the need for a feat "generous and short" and explained in detail that the war was not against the English, but against the colonial regime.

also calls for the transformation of socio-economic reality, once the armed conflict, and rejects any geopolitical consideration about a future for Cuba-related in another nation state framework, under these principles Marti, Cuba to take up arms again not only to achieve its independence from Spain but above all to avoid dominance in our America

. And with its vision of seven leagues, Marti said, "do over the sea of \u200b\u200bblood and affection, which at the bottom of the sea makes the Andean mountains of fire."

manifest content is also implicit in the letter he wrote the national hero to his mother from that place, which let them see the principles underlying the new emancipating and duty and usefulness in the struggle.

Days later, the two main organizers, landed on the eastern shores of Cuba to be at the forefront of the war, concluded he could not see Jose Marti, then falls in battle in May.

Montecristi Manifesto, 116 years of writing not only exists today between the content of history, but also as a paradigm of the Republic who ran Martí:''with all for the good of everyone,''the Cubans build since 1959.