Neither the Ten Years' War, nor the Little War, had managed to achieve the main objective that those who initiated them had proposed: the total and definitive independence of the island of Cuba from its colonial power, Spain. Between 1880 and 1895 , Cuba entered the period of its history that has become known as the Fertile Truce, also known as the "Turbulent Rest", as it was a time of relative peace and economic prosperity in the colony, although tinged by intermittent uprisings and insurrections, which did not manage to consolidate enough to be considered as new wars of independence.