Maximo Gomez
Gómez implemented a warfare technique that proved to be very successful for crippling Spanish economic interests in Cuba at the time: torching sugar cane haciendas and other strategic agricultural assets. He personally abhorred the idea of "setting to fire the product of our laborers' work over more than 200 years in a few hours", but countered that, given the state of misery most of these laborers still experienced, if that was the price to pay to redeem them from the economic system that enslaved them
Maximo Gomez
Gómez implemented a warfare technique that proved to be very successful for crippling Spanish economic interests in Cuba at the time: torching sugar cane haciendas and other strategic agricultural assets. He personally abhorred the idea of "setting to fire the product of our laborers' work over more than 200 years in a few hours", but countered that, given the state of misery most of these laborers still experienced, if that was the price to pay to redeem them from the economic system that enslaved them