The national flag of Cuba hangs alongside the Cuban coat of arms and the revolutionary flag of Yara (also known as the flag of La Demajagua) inside the Cuban National Assembly. Created in the mid-nineteenth century by the Venezuelan Narciso López, who led a few unsuccessful attempts to liberate the island from Spanish rule, the current flag of Cuba was adopted as the nation’s national emblem upon independence in the first decade of the twentieth century. The flag of Yara was created by Cuban revolutionary Carlos Manuel de Céspedes during the Ten Years War (1868-1878), and is named after the Grito de Yara (Cry of Yara), Céspedes’ proclamation of Cuban independence in the town of Yara in 1868.
