The Story of Cuba

“The Story of Cuba is a tragedy.” Murat Halstead wrote it while the insurrection was still burning — four centuries of Spanish rule, the sugar and slave economy, Weyler’s camps, and an America deciding whether to intervene.

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Outline History of Cuba from May, 1896, to January, 1897: Zertucha

This seems to have been produced to meet the demand. There is no reason to believe it save so far as it may be corroborated. At any rate it disposes of the flag of truce. It is clearly not impossible that Zertucha is a traitor and betrayed Maceo. He was at the trouble to say that the Cuban insurgents in Pinar del Rio were reduced to desperation--and we have to conjecture whether there is a considerable measure of truth in this--and that Maceo was really disheartened and desperate, or simply impatient at the long delay of Gomez in marching west, and resolved to go and seek him, at the same time dispersing his command in bands of sixty, as is known to have been his purpose if assailed by overwhelming forces; and it is to be thought of that Zertucha is in the hands of the Spaniards, and is not at liberty to speak, save in a way to please them:

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