Colonialismo e imperialismo en el proceso independentista cubano

Abstract

This essay seeks to reveal and follow the development of colonial-type actions, and those related to imperialism, over the Cuban territory on the eve of its process of independence. In order to do so we will take as primary source the newspaper La Nación, which imprints its daily editions with news about the incidents in the Caribbean despite wielding its discourse from an exogenous point of view simply because it was located (even geographically) outside the actual area of conflict. La Nación spins several arguments concerning Spanish colonialism and the imperialist entry into Cuba by the U.S., which allows us to analyze how the newspaper establishes different defense arguments or how it denounces the actions developed in Cuba, establishing independence as a genuine fact at a more-than-secondary level.