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That's the plan. But like I've said, most of the future is just a rough mental outline. Both of these posts were written off the cuff in about ten to fifteen minutes each. I'm rather spontaneous when it comes to my writing and apart for some minor grammatical and spelling fixes, what you see is...

Chapter I: La Guerra del 95 ”¿Del tirano? Del tirano Di todo, ¡di más! ; y clava Con furia de mano esclava Sobre su oprobio al tirano.” -José Martí, Versos Sencillos On December 25, 1894, three ships set out for Cuba from Fernandina Beach, Florida. The ships were loaded with soldiers...

As a Cuban, the answer to that question is an emphatic HELL FUCKING NO. Keith and Preston shan't having but perhaps the slightest passing reference. Yours is an American lake. Mine shall be quite the opposite. Once I get the next chapter written and the co-author of this gets done with our first...

As far as fully fleshed out chapters go, what's posted is what I have right now. I'm a college student, cut me some slack. :p I can tell you that what my co-author and I have planned so far will distinctly alter the role of the United States in the America's and the way the world interacts with...

Prologue: El Partido Revolucionario Cubano ”Pensé en el pobre artillero Que está en la tumba, callado: Pensé en mi padre, el soldado: Pensé en mi padre, el obrero.” -José Martí, Versos Sencillos January 3, 1892; Cayo Hueso, La Florida José Martí, the Cuban poet and revolutionary, sat quietly...

The problem is that they were offered that in the Pact of Zanjon and the Spaniards never followed through. They mistrust any offers such as that and follow leaders who have said things such as "I shall reach the pedestal of freedom or I shall perish fighting for my country's redemption." Minus...

You completely underestimate the power of the Cuban Revolutionaries. Antonio de Maceo y Grajales and Maximo Gomez were tantamount to military geniuses of the time. The current development of military theory around insurgency and insurrection comes directly from the methods of Maximo Gomez. With...

I've never written a very in depth timeline before but was recently struck by an idea to create a truly independent Cuba without the trappings of US intervention and the Platt Amendment. The main POD is probably going to be José Martí living through the Battle of Dos Ríos and thus maintaining...