Calixto García Íñiguez, born on this day in 1836, was a general in three separate Cuban uprisings for independence - the Ten Years' War, the Little War, and the War of 1895, which bled into the Spanish-American War.
García joined the Ten Years' War at the age of 18. Five years later, when surrounded by Spanish troops, he shot himself under the chin with a .45 caliber pistol to not give them the satisfaction of capturing him. Although the bullet went out of his forehead and knocked him unconscious, he survived. The wound left a great scar and gave him headaches for the rest of his life.
García played a key role in the ultimately successful War of 1895 and protested the subsequent lack of Cuban autonomy in the conclusion of the war (no Cuban was allowed to sign the terms of surrender and the Spanish leaders in Cuba were allowed to keep their posts in Santiago).
After American military commander William Shafter excluded Cubans from negotiations for the surrender of Santiago, declined to invite García to the surrender ceremonies, and let Spanish authorities remain in control of Santiago until the U.S. could establish a military government, García resigned from the rebel army in protest on July 17th, 1898.
García died of pneumonia on December 11th, 1898 while on a diplomatic mission in Washington, D.C. Today, his portrait is on the 50 Cuban peso banknote.
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@RyanGosling@hexbear.net Just wanting to recognize here (no need to make a separate thread) that ironically or very apropos or whatever, that the discussion the other day was sufficient to summon Kanye and make him drop “Vultures 2”. We manifested this.
I obviously refuse to give an inch RE my previous posts (Donda 2 is a stroke a genius from a mad man), but: this album, the Vultures project, is not good; most ideas are DOA, the best ideas are recycled from prior projects and don’t work here, the execution is non-existent (mumble, AI, uploading wrong files), it indulges some of his worst impulses (the cloying sentimentality, now wrapped up in an implicitly gross misogynistic gloss (HUSBAND, and then refrained again(!) on LIFESTYLE).
But I’m sure he’ll return to form for V3 😝
(i did like: 530 (but should be on D2 comps, not here); MY SOUL (Kanye's portion of the song is reused from an old track Fighting Fires; I love the old leaks of the track and don't care for how it turned out here but the second half of the song I think is p effective (Genius says its not Tys singing, but his incarcerated brother, reinforcing the songs theme), BOMB (like an anime credit track, featuring his kids -- v. fun/cute))