In the studies of our long history, the 17th century in Cuba constituted, for some historians, a perverse pleasure not very objective, which meant a moment of dark penury for the Greater Antilles. This century is already been shown on its real dimension, as foundation of permanent evolution in the socioeconomic and cultural aspects. The 1600s mark, in its great social clarity and own-willing customs, the emergence of a Creole' land.

The pages contained in this book allow to continue, in its narration, those times of smuggling, bribe and complicity; reaffirmation in the Caribbean context and, more importantly, of an attitude before the Hispanic, English and Dutch customs, which process facilitated the emergence of a society inside and outside its insular limits, constituting a line of canyons facing unfolded sails under corsair’s' ribbing, in an environment of imperial wars transcended to the restless Caribbean.