Caciques, elites, clientelas y los problemas raciales: veteranos negros en Cienfuegos entre 1902 y 1912

Abstract

The work‘s subject is the Cienfuegos region in the years from 1898 to 1912. The analysis covers the many black Cuban veterans of the subaltern sectors, whose faces and voices hardly ever appear or are merely glimpsed in newspapers, magazines and documents in a historical context that privilege on the dominant classes, groups and sectors. The connection of the black sectors of the Liberation Army with the clienteles and power groups in the Cienfuegos setting facilitates a greater understanding of the role of popular strata in the events occurring in the first decade of the Republic‘s life from a regional perspective and approach.