José Martí,
(January 28, 1853-May 12, 1895), Cuba's National Hero and
great figure of History, the Hispanic-American Letters and
Culture. He studied Law and Philosophy and Letters in Spain.
The people of Cuba names him as the Apostle.
A thinker of
universal stature, , Martí contributed with his texts to the
sprouting of a new Literature language. With his genius and
political action, he continued the ideas of Bolivar, Juárez
and other Latin American outstanding figures.
Founder of the
Cuban Revolutionary Party (1892), he organized "La Guerra
Necesaria" to free his motherland from the Spanish
colonialism and facing the imminent expansion of the
emerging United States´ imperialism, he summoned the peoples
of "Our America" to conquer their "second -
independence".
Little is known
about José Martis´ diplomatic activity, and his
participation as delegate in the Monetary Conference of
1891. However, in Marti's political project for
independence, his diplomatic legacy remains
alive.
As delegate of
the Cuban Revolutionary Party he put into practice a foreign
policy conception which, based on the Latin-American and
antimperialist ideas, did not limit its performance to the
establishment of nexuses among governments and extended it
to the peoples
On December,
1889, Martí gave a speech known as "Mother America", which
constitutes a foreign policy project, where the principles
that should guide the relations among Latin American
countries and the as the essential force to be used to
restrain and oppose the conquest of Latin America by the
United States were established.
A day before
Marti was deadly wounded in combat, he wrote, a letter to
his close Mexican friend Manuel Mercado, in which he made
enlightening and impressive revelations that are considered
his political testament.
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