Cuban Stories: Episode 3 - The Last Awakening of a Spanish Colony

26/08/2020 23 min Temporada 1 Episodio 3

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Episode Synopsis

This episode is about my maternal grandparents, as told to me by my mother, Martina. A story about love, struggle, and spies during the Cuban War of Independence in the late 1890s. It includes aspects of the friendship between my grandfather Manuel, and El General Machado, who later was elected President of the Republic of Cuba.
And touches on General Valeriano Weyler's reconcentration camps in the same timeframe.