Revisiting a little-known fact of the ten years’ war: the sedition of tacajó

Abstract

The following research aims to draw attention to a little-known fact of the Ten Years' War, but which has a greatsignificance in the initial moments of it: the seditious movement or attempted coup led by Donato Mármol against the Eastern Government of Carlos Manuel de Céspedes, in Tacajó. A series of consequences arose from it that would have their final expression in the Guáimaro Assembly and in the agreements made there. On the other hand, a historiographic evaluation of the eventisoffered based on the assessment of different figures of national historiography. In this sense, the significance of the event as a movement motivated by socio-class issues draws attention, which allows the universe of certainties to be broadened, and new lines of interpretation around the Ten Years' War are opened.