and no sooner did the Spanish suppress the initial insurgency in 1878 than another broke out in 1879-80 [Suchlicki 72].
Even after this was quelled, tension remained. In 1892, Jose Marti, a Cuban exile in the United States, organized a revolutionary party, and in 1895 full-scale insurgency broke out again [Suchlicki 78-79]. Marti was killed in battle early on, but the war continued with the insurgents gaining ground. In 1896, Spain dispatched General Valeriano Weyler [Perez 54-55], whose repressive measures earned him the title "Beast" Weyler in the U.S. yellow press.
In January of 1898, the Spanish government made a new offer of a political settlement, proposing a plan under which Cuba would have broad self-government within the Spanish Empire. Such a status would have been not unlike Dominion status in the British Empire, as that status operated at the end of the 19th century: Cuba would have been autonomous in its internal affairs, though remaining aligned with Spain internationally. This proposal, however, was rejected entirely by the rebel leadership under Maximo Gomez, a veteran of the previous round of insurgen
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