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“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 Record of Desolation and Despair: Matanzas

The insurgent leaders, Vincente Nunez and Eduardo Garcia, with a force estimated to number about 1,500 men, are encamped at the plantation of Magdalena, district of Santa Ana, Province of Matanzas. They have burned fourteen houses belonging to the colony of Estrella, near Palmillas, province of Matanzas, and have destroyed a number of cane fields in Central Felicia and Alfonso Doce.

The insurgent leader, Angel Castillo, has burned near Puerto Principe a fine farm and a number of houses at Quinta Maria, San Miguel la Carbonera, La Josefina, Santa Rosa, and other places which had good houses. The insurgents have burned thirty houses in the village of Jamanitas and the farm of La Herminia near Marianao. They have also burned 635 tons of sugar cane near Palmillas in Matanzas.

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