Includes bibliographical references (pages 521-558) and index.
Summary:
Este libro es producto de una investigacion que, con mayor o menor intensidad, duro mas de veinticinco anos y se extendio a una docena de paises. Juan Maso Parra es quizas la figura mas controversial que produjo el proceso independentista cubano del siglo XIX y, al mismo tiempo, una de las menos conocidas. Combatiente de las tres guerras que ensangrentaron la Isla entre 1868 y 1898, Juan Maso Parra entro en las filas independentistas a muy temprana edad y las abandono cinco dias antes de la llegada a La Habana del acorazado Maine cuya voladura poco despues determino la entrada de Estados Unidos en la guerra contra Espana. Ante esas circunstancias, Juan Maso Parra propuso y las autoridades espanolas aceptaron organizar una brigada de excombatientes cubanos para luchar ℗±contra los invasores de la America del Norte℗. Despues de la derrota de Espana, Maso Parra fue ignorado por cronistas e historiadores, y su nombre, convertido en anatema, desaparecio del discurso nacional. Este trabajo explora su trayecto vital, pero ademas de ser un ensayo biografico revela tambien informaciones novedosas acerca de los hechos en que Juan Maso Parra participo y que conforman una parte importante del relato fundacional de Cuba como pais independiente. THis book is the product of an investigation that, with greater or lesser intensity, lasted more than twenty-five years and extended to a dozen countries. Juan Maso Parra is perhaps the most controversial figure that produced the Cuban independence process of the 19th century and, at the same time, one of the least known. A fighter in the three wars that bloodied the island between 1868 and 1898, Juan Maso Parra entered the independence ranks at an early age and left them five days before the arrival of the battleship Maine in Havana, the blasting of which soon after determined the entry of States. United in the war against Spain. In these circumstances, Juan Maso Parra proposed and the Spanish authorities agreed to organize a brigade of Cuban ex-combatants to fight "against the invaders from North America." After the defeat of Spain, Maso Parra was ignored by chroniclers and historians, and his name, turned into an anathema, disappeared from the national discourse. This work explores his life trajectory, but in addition to being a biographical essay, it also reveals new information about the events in which Juan Maso Parra participated and that make up an important part of the founding story of Cuba as an independent country.
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