resulting in the deaths of at least 10% of all Cubans. The Spanish were eventually defeated in the conflict, and as a result, all the camps were shut down.

Background

The plan implemented by Valeriano Weyler to relocate Cuba's rural population into concentration camps was originally developed by Arsenio Martínez Campos as a way to separate rebels from the rural populace who occasionally fed and sheltered them. Affected people had

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