General Valeriano Weyler ordered people into concentration camps during the Spanish-American War to control the Cuban revolutionaries led by Máximo Gómez fighting for Cuba's independence from Spain. The political cartoon depicts Weyler, the Spanish governor, sending civilians into concentration camps while Gómez leads the Cuban rebels.
4. General Valeriano Weyler
Máximo Gómez
Spanish Governor;
Commandant of the
Ordered people into
Cuban revolutionaries
concentration camps
during the Spanish
-American War
