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Esteban worked in this area after leaving the Ariosa near Zulueta. Paradoxically, he spoke well of the notorious slaver and international capitalists Tomas Terry.

“I stayed at the Ariosa for a long time. When I arrived there, the workers asked me, “Hey, where you come from?”

On December 15, 1895, rebel troops, headed by Maximo Gómez and Antonio Maceo, entered the region of Cienfuegos. Esteban joined the group further east, sometime around the third or fourth of December.

Cienfuegos is a captivating city. La Perla del Sur (the Pearl of the South) has the longest urban promenade in Cuba, El Paseo del Prado.

Palmira is well known for its Afro-Cuban religious traditions. Three cabildos and two temples to the Orishas crowd the town.

Ciego Montero is a small town, but it is known throughout Cuba because of the spring which produced the most popular bottled water and soft drinks on the island, the Ciego Montero brand.

Esteban settled in Santa Isabel de las Lajas after the war. Here he began to criticize the injustices he found in the newly independent Cuba.

Cruces is the birthplace of Martin Dihigo, the Immortal, the Maestro; the baseball player who excelled at all nine positions while playing in the U.S. Negro League, the Mexican League, the Cuban league, the Dominican League and other Latin American leagues.

A bridge over the Caunao River leads into Potrerillo. The town buzzes with activity.

The town was founded in 1868, the year of Esteban’s birth. The aboriginal name was changed to Palma Sola in the late 19th Century but reinstated around 1904.