José Martí organizes the Cuban
Revolutionary Party and looks for the old leaders of the revolution, unifies the different currents, builds a small army, and disembarks in Cuba. The USA does not want to lose the possibility of taking over the largest island of the Antilles and, in 1898, after the explosion of the battleship Maine in the port of Havana, he declares war on Spain. UU precipitated the Spanish defeat and Cuba proclaimed its independence in 1899, although it suffered the American occupation.