 Later these people, known as the "Cimarrón", assisted Sir Francis Drake in fighting against the Spanish.Gaspar Yanga was an African leader of a Maroon colony in the Veracruz highlands in what is now Mexico.In 1609, after having been a fugitive for 38 years, Yanga negotiated with the Spanish Colonists to establish a self-ruled maroon settlement called San Lorenzo de los Negros, (later renamed Yanga).