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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The Crisis in Cuba: Minas

Between April 13 and 22, says Mr. Creelman, and he is the first to state the fact, the following peaceful inhabitants were taken from their homes and shot on the Fierabras road between Campo Florida and Minas: Margarito Verole, a farmer's boy, fourteen years old. M. V. Collina, aged forty-four years, married, merchant. J. Caballin, aged forty-five years, married, merchant. Benigno Galloso, aged forty years, single, farmer. A son of Galloso, aged twenty-five years, single. Eduardo Sardenes, aged thirty-seven, married. Cruz Ferrer, forty-two years, married, farmer. Inocente Rabell, forty years, married, cheesemaker. Florencio Rabell, thirty-six years, single, cheesemaker. Basilio E. Rubio, forty-six years, married, farmer. Eleno Guerra, thirty-three years, married, farmer.

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