The discharging of the Liberating Mambí Army was, undoubtedly, one of the most polemic moments in national history, characterized by the contradictions among the Assemblies of Cerro and Marianao and the Generalissimo Máximo Gómez, which led to his destitution and the dissolution of the Representative Assembly. A century later, the historian Jorge Ibarra Cuesta, with his usual lucidity and penetration, reflected Gómez and Cuban patriots’ attitude on those dramatic moments, facing the Yanquee interventionist presence in Cuba until 1905.