Written with the teaching of our National Hero, and approved in all its parts without doubts by Máximo Gómez, in the Montecristi town, Dominican Republic, the program of the Revolution was established, kicked off on February 24th under the guidance of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, by will of a group of patriots, men who, according to Martí, were deciding to face again the dangers of the war, and to pay for the independence the price that was necessary.

Nothing escaped the historical document, even tackled the problem of the racism and how much the hate towards the black could hinder the essential unity, the rivalries that so much damaged the integrity of the War of Ten Years.

The historical document was sustaining the most noble feelings and commitments of those who at last would be the real founders of peoples, of the longed Marti´s republic “with all and for the good of all”.

The diffusion of the Manifesto was part of the tactics directed to join strengths to the fight, therefore some days after its signature approximately ten thousand copies saw the light in a printing of New York; it was necessary to imbue with its humanist and political essence to all the Cubans, Latin Americans and even to the proper Spanish.

Montecristi trascends in the history of Cuba like a reliable test of the quality in the ideas in it materialized.

Today the circumstances defer from those of 120 years ago, especially because that nascent North American US empire specified the announced threat, but the same way the Latin-American unity becomes stronger and consolidated.

Translated by BA in English Language, Manuel Barrera Téllez

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