The Capture of Guisa represented a very important military victory for the Cuban Liberation Army as well as a demoralizing defeat for the Spanish Army. In the media sphere, it served to discredit the disinformation campaign that Captain General Valeriano Weyler carried out about his supposed “pacification” of Cuba and the supposed “success” of his feared and despised Reconcentration of him. It represented one of the last Spanish military defeats, before the dismissal of Weyler as head of Cuba and the promulgation, in November of the same year, of the Autonomous Charter, which sought to placate the spirits of independence by granting autonomy, something that did not work either. Spain would end up losing Cuba, Puerto Rico, the Philippines and Guam in 1898 after American intervention in the War.
