That Cuban Flag…The Original

The Cuban flag had its origin in the United States of America. In New York, the Venezuelan general Narciso López conceived its design; it was then drawn by the Cuban writer Miguel Teurbe Tolón and sewn by his cousin and wife, Emilia Teurbe Tolón (“the Cuban Betsy Ross”), in early June of 1849. Later, another flag, sewn by ladies in New Orleans, became the first hoisted in Cuba, on 19 May 1850, in the city of Cárdenas. The paper traces the history of those first two flags through over a century and a half. Today both historic flags are kept in Havana, Cuba, in the Presidential Palace (today the Museum of the Revolution) and in the Capitol. This essay also includes other relevant facts such as the symbols in this flag and the places where the Cuban flag was first hoisted, on 11 May 1850, simultaneously in the buildings of two newspapers in New York and in New Orleans, announcing to the world the struggle for the Cuban independence.

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