Salvador Cisneros Betancourt: his steps in Guaimaro

 The surrounding landscape is beautiful, the rooms of the Municipal Museum, dressed in history and memories, illuminating the local awakening. The streets of the town adore the steps of the Cuban politician who became president of the Republic of Cuba in Arms from 1873 to 1875.

Guaimaro was also the city of Salvador Cisneros Betancourt. In the clay pot located near the ceiba that shelters the iconic place where that April 10^th, 1869 a group of separatists signed the first constitution, the Marquis de Santa Lucía, considered one of the richest men in Camagüey, condition who he resigned due to the love for freedom, drank purified water.

Cisneros Betancourt resolutely opposes the Platt Amendment, Appendix added to the Cuban Constitution in the period of the first US military occupation of the island, which occurred between 1899 and 1902, and responding to the interests of the United States.

After the first Constituent Assembly was culminated in the history of Cuba, the patriot who now favors this times of comment, he lived more than a month in the eastern region of the once called Villa de Santa María del Puerto del Principe.

Camagüeyan thoroughbred, Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, was a source of inspiration for the apostle José Martí, who when referring to the President of the Chamber of Representatives, at the time of proclaiming in Guaimaro the Republic of Cuba, he wrote in the form of anecdote:

"When he was in lomillo in the saddle of reeds, which is used in Camagüey by the poor peasants, when he was president of the Chamber and the older man on the Revolution: The Marquis answered: Because I always thought that until the last soldier of the cavalry would have a saddle, the Government should not ride having one."

In his youth Cisneros Betancourt made and supported many works, whether charitable, humanitarian or other. He served as Mayor, he participates in a revolutionary junta, organized in Camagüey the Tínima Masonic lodge. In all the battles he proved his value, reason why on February 28, 1914 by the news of his death all the people got sad, the country lost one of its finest sons, an intransigent defender of national sovereignty.

The residents of Guaimaro, all Cubans evoke the unforgettable hero, proudly reviewed the life of the fellow countryman who, at the outbreak of the Ten Years' War, gave freedom to his slaves and put his goods at the service of the independence of the nation.

Salvador Cisneros Betancourt, forever in the memory of the people he loved so much and defended, the Cuban.