The Pact of Zanjón?

Spain promised to reform the island’s political and economic system in the Pact of Zanjón (1878), which ended the war. However, the nationalist leader Antonio Maceo and several others refused to accept the Spanish conditions. In August 1879 Calixto García started a second uprising, called La Guerra Chiquita (“The Little War”), which Spanish forces put down the following year.

The political and economic crisis grew more severe. The Spanish government failed to carry out most of the promised reforms, although it allowed Cubans to send representatives to the Cortes (parliament)…(britannica.com).”

The Pact of Zanjón took place ALMOST exactly 20 years before the explosion of the battleship USS Maine in Havana. The Spanish-American War began soon after the explosion. In 1976 we discovered the explosion of the Maine was caused by an accidental fire inside it, and not by Spain. We can't change history! What happened, happened! In retrospect, when one tries to gather and research all relevant data, it seems as if it was mostly an opportunistic thing for the United States to go to war, for multiple reasons. As usual, the popular opinion narrative was already in advance created by media. If you don’t believe, the person of William Randolph Hearst alone was and is more than enough evidence to justify the fact. When it comes to these types of narratives, there is really nothing new under the sun. The war in Ukraine is a perfect recent example. I would even add the Normandy invasion seems like another example of this type of opportunism since the Russians had already previously weakened the Nazis in the Battle of Stalingrad. We don’t seem to hear much about this, for some reason. It is really a whole other subject for another time, which will require extensive research. This is also why I use the word "seems" when referencing. I consider myself more pro-American than many, but many parts of history are often questionable, and should be questioned.

Not to get sidetracked, the Pact of Zanjón is one of those events in history we don’t hear much about. It’s not that somehow some wish to cover it up, but it was evidence that the war between the Cubans and Spain had been dwindling for a while, but perhaps not in a way that was economically beneficial for the United States, seemingly. Seemingly, we will stop here!

 

 

 

 

Reference:

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pact-of-Zanjon