CUBA SIEMPRE
The week of Cuba independence day commemorates 115 years of the proclamation of the Republic of Cuba, when the people of Havana approached the bay to contemplate how the Cuban flag was hoisted for the first time in La Fortaleza de los Tres Reyes del Morro. It was not until May 20, 1902 when Cuba was recognized as an independent nation and when Tomás Estrada Palma was sworn in as the first president. That same day the American flag was lowered to raise for the first time the Cuban flag.
On this day the American troops began to back out and the power was transferred to the first president-elect Tomas Estrada Palma, thus fulfilling the greatest aspiration of the Cuban people to embark on the road to democracy.