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In these days before to the 150 anniversary of the Scream of Independence of La Demajagua, happened on October 10, 1868, it is worthy to remember Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, precursor of this exploit and the narrow ties with The Camagüey.

For the celebrity of liberating his slaves, proving to be openly opposite to the Spanish metropolis and for other ethical type reasons, he summarized the sufficient merits to integrate the patriots' cluster that proclaimed in Guáimaro, in April, 1869, the first Constituent of the Republic in Weapon.

The historical stage of the most oriental of the Camagüey´s municipalities was a witness of the investiture of Céspedes as president. But how to imagine that the made invitation, some days later for the Mambí General Gonzalo de Quesada, to eat in his house, was the preamble of an affectionate love between Ana, his sister, and distinguished propertied, frustrated only with the death of the patriot in the San Lorenzo on February 27, 1874.

Ana de QuesadaAna de Quesada Loynaz, after the death of the first wife of the rich lawyer, was attracted by this indomitable man. Months later of the Constituent of Guáimaro they contracted nuptials in San Diego de Corralillo, current territory of Najasa.

Of that marriage there was born the first son, to whom they would name Oscar, in posthumous honor to the shoot of her husband dead by the Spanish hosts. Before the offering of his life in exchange for his ideas, he answered: "Oscar is not my only son; I am the father of all the Cuban who have died for the Revolution”.

They supervened difficult moments: the internment of Ana in the swamp with his child, mother, sisters and other Cuban families and the arrival of a Spanish force that would threaten them to leave the houses limited to ashes by the foreign military men.

The unbreakable will of this woman did not make her desist from the reunion with Céspedes, feel the pain for the death of the small Oscar, who did not resist the rigors of the rebellious field.

Gloria de los DoloresThe history describes that Céspedes decided to send the wife to the exile. She, after mishaps, of being prisoner along with the poet Juan Clemente Zenea, in moments of the arrangements to take a ship, managed to travel to the United States, where they are born the twins Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada and Gloria de los Dolores, whom he never saw.

With two months of delay, he knew of his parenthood, fact that filled him with enthusiasm, in such a way that there was no letter that he was not speaking about them, about the desire of being next to both, although he presaged that he would die without seeing them.

The life of Ana remained marked by the alienation of her dear. Even in October 1873, after the Chamber of the Republic in Weapon dismissed Céspedes from his post as president, he asked them to facilitate him a passport, of such way, which he met his wife and children, he would keep on serving to the Revolution, request that was denied.

He went then to the San Lorenzo, where he found the death.

In the altar of the Homeland will always be Céspedes and Ana. This woman from the exile, cheered up by the fact of preparing his son to serve to the Homeland when the war began again to achieve the redemption of Cuba.

Carlos Manuel de Céspedes y Quesada The pawned word she fulfilled it, his son as well as her, they formed an expedition to come back in order to integrate again to the revolutionary struggles.

Ana would recognize: "I belonged to this group of young Camagüey’s people that following our elders we went to attend in Guáimaro the birth of a people. Later wife of the first President of the Republic, I had to suffer next to him the signs of the campaign in the rawest years of the war”.

Carlos Manuel of Céspedes: The revolutionary virtue, it is the title of the article published on October 10, 2017 by Eusebio Leal in Cubadebate, in which he admits that José Martí carried out an accurate analysis of that democratic utopia on having admitted that the Father of the Homeland did not believe in a divided authority.

“The unity of the control was the salvation of the revolution; that the chiefs' diversity, instead of accelerating, was obstructing the movements. He had the rapid, only end: the independence of the Homeland. The Chamber had another: what will be the country after the independence. The two were right; but at the moment of the struggle, the Chamber had it secondly. Pawned to his objective, he was pushing back all that was stopping it”.

This unity which Céspedes advocated for is the same professed by other patriots throughout more than hundred years of struggle and shaped happily by Fidel Castro that, according to the Historian of Havana, in an act in the Cuban capital, in occasion of the first year of the physical disappearance of the Historical Leader of the Revolution, “The unity of his people was the most beautiful pearl that the Leader of the Revolution cultivated”.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez