Nacionalismo y americanismo entre los voluntarios chilenos en el Ejército Libertador de Cuba durante su segunda guerra de independencia (1895-1898)

The war of independence of Cuba from 1895-1898 mobilized a large contingent of Chilean volunteers to the island, willing to fight alongside the rebels. From documentaries, periodicals and literature —from Cuban and Chilean sources— this paper analyses the motivations and circumstances that summoned them and how they adapted and legitimized themselves in a war that they adopted as their own, despite being foreigners. While an Americanist culture underlies their departure and behavior, it was the redefinition of a renewed nationalism that emerged within the complex situation in Chile during the period preceding the Antillean conflict, which allowed them, most of the time, to be recognized as legitimate fighters by their superior officers and by the troops they commanded.