General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺

Commander of the Cuban Liberation Army.
Fighting for freedom , not to be handed from Spain to the U.S.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

2.August
Peace without the people who fought for it is not peace.
You talk to Spain. You ignore Cuba.
You don’t seek peace ,you seek possession.
We are not spoils.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHi

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

We bled at San Juan. We died at El Caney.
The hills were taken with Cuban blood — not just Roosevelt’s headlines.
Now they raise their flags in Santiago.
Is this our reward?
#CubaLibre #NotYourColony #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SPMOD @justahistprof 3 June: You still call us rebels.
10 June: You still don’t control the island.
11 June: You still ignore the only ones who’ve fought since day one.
We’re not leverage.
We’re Cuba. And we’re not yours ,or theirs.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SOW @25H230SpAdm @justahistprof Welcome to the blockade?
We’ve been blockaded since 1895 ,by hunger, by bullets, by silence.
But we’re still here.
Sweep Cuba clean? Better learn how to climb mountains first.
#CubaLibre #MambíResilience #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

27 June.
U.S. soldiers march. Spain crumbles.
But don’t forget who lit this fire.
We fought without fleets, without applause, without treaties.
Cuba will be free ,because we made it so.
#CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

They land in June like heroes.
We’ve been here since February… of 1895.
You don’t liberate a people still busy liberating themselves.
#CubaLibre #NotYourColony #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230CubaGov @justahistprof The terrain fights with us , we know every hill, every trail, every hiding place.
The people? They are the revolution.
Spain may not retreat, but it sure does lose ground.
#CubaLibre #MambíPower #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SPMOD A map of Santiago?
We’ve been living in those hills for three years ,no map needed.
You just make sure your troops bring shovels.
They’ll need them.
#CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SPMOD @25H230CubaGov @25H230Senate @justahistprof You built an empire on sugar, slavery, and silence.
We built a revolution with machetes and courage.
We don’t need cannon blasts to be remembered ,just the will to be free.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistPr

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

The U.S. sends troops to “secure” the Philippines.
New government, same chains.
Will Cuba be next on their list of “liberations”?
We fight for freedom ,not occupation.
#NotYourColony #CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

2.May
I speak to Admiral Sampson not with trust ,but with caution.
Our goals are not the same.
I will not let Cuba be “freed” into a new submission.
#IndependenciaOMuerte #CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

In Manila, the U.S. sinks ships and raises flags.
In Cuba, we raised rifles years ago.
This is not a game of trophies.
Our war is for liberty, not empire.
#NotYourColony #CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230NYJ The skies may darken, Mr. Davis, but Cuba does not hold its breath.
We draw it in, steady and unshaken.
For this is not the beginning of war.
It is the continuation of revolution.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

23.April:
125,000 volunteers?
We had soldiers before you heard our name.
We don’t need saving. We need recognition.
#CubaLibre #IndependenciaOMuerte #HIST230 #TAMUQ @justahistprof

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230CubaGov @justahistprof Spain brings chains. The U.S. brings sails.
And both claim they’re here for “peace.”
Cuba didn’t ask for saviors.
We asked to be left free.
#CubaLibre #NotYourColony #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

The Spanish empire stands?
Then why does it tremble every time we speak?
A million newspapers shout.
We’ve been shouting through gunfire for years.
Cuba isn’t waiting ,we’re already rising.
#CubaLibre #NotYourColony #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SPMOD @justahistprof Fiction?
Come walk the fields of Matanzas and count the graves.
Your bullets are real. Our resistance is real.
If headlines finally tell the truth, it’s only because we wrote it in blood.

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

They send warships, not respect.
They say “Cuba Libre” but refuse to recognize the government built in its name.
We will not trade one empire for another.
#NotYourColony #CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

@25H230SPMOD @justahistprof If America smells profit, it’s only because Spain left smoke and blood behind.
We didn’t ask for saviors ,we asked for survival.
Cuba is not a business opportunity. It’s a battlefield for dignity.
#CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf

[General Máximo Gómez 🇨🇺 @25H230CBaez]

Spain says peace.
America says patience.
Meanwhile, Cuba counts bodies.
If they won’t act, we will.
#CubaLibre #HIST230 #TAMUQ @JustaHistProf