Because of its transcendental significance, José Martí did not hesitate to include the Baraguá Protest in the exalted site "of the most glorious of our history". Among those leafy trees, the intransigence of the Bronze Titan vindicated the revolutionary and independence cause betrayed in El Zanjón.
The "we do not understand each other" of General Antonio Maceo still resounds; the deep revolutionary commitment of the Constitution promulgated there; the fidelist conviction that "the future of our Homeland will be an eternal Baraguá"; and the validity of the Oath, which bears that title, signed by the vast majority of Cubans in the year 2000.
In that remote place of the eastern geography, the libertarian deed was continued, the Revolution was supported, which only had truces, and then, with extraordinary strength, fought, resisted and won. The peace without independence negotiated by some was not assumed by those who were willing to offer their lives -as they did- in the redeeming field.
He who had as much strength in his mind as in his arm, did not hesitate to answer General Arsenio Martinez Campos, the proposal of the colonial power: "We do not agree with what was agreed in El Zanjon; we do not believe that the conditions stipulated there justify the surrender after the rough battle for an idea for ten years, and I wish to spare you the trouble of continuing your explanations, because they are not accepted here".
Our Commander-in-Chief, as consistent as Maceo, in heroic Santiago in October 1991, when imperialism was celebrating the fall of the socialist camp and, at the same time, auguring the imminent end of the Cuban Revolution, sentenced: "Antonio Maceo, that, your unforgettable, glorious and unsurpassable protest that one day took place under those Mangos de Baraguá, that same protest is the one that today takes place here, under these steels that symbolize your invincible machetes!".