Biography of jose marti
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José Martí
José Martí (–) was the founding hero of Cuban independence. In all of modern Latin American history, arguably only the “Great Liberator” Simón Bolívar rivals Martí in stature and legacy. Beyond his accomplishments as a revolutionary and political thinker, Martí was a giant of Latin American letters, whose poetry, essays, and journalism still rank among the most important works of the region. Today he is revered by both the Castro regime and the Cuban exile community, whose shared veneration of the “apostle” of freedom has led to his virtual apotheosis as a national saint.
In José Martí: A Revolutionary Life, Alfred J. López presents the definitive biography of the Cuban patriot and martyr. Writing from a nonpartisan perspective and drawing on years of research using original Cuban and U.S. sources, including materials never before used in a Martí biography, López strips away generations of mythmaking and portrays Martí as Cuba’s greatest founding father and one of Latin
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Born in Havana, Martí began his political activism at an
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José Martí
José Julián Martí y Pérez, born on January 28, , in Havana is a Cuban national hero and a prominent figure in Latin American literature. Martí was dedicated to Cuba’s independence and published his first newspaper La Patria Libre [Free Fatherland] in After denouncing a pro-Spanish classmate, José was sentenced to six years of hard labor.
Martí went to college in Madrid and Zaragoza in Spain, where he published El presidio político en Cuba, an attack on Cuban prisons. From until , he lived in New York, writing on life in the United States for several Latin newspapers and magazines including Opinión Nacional (Caracas) and La Nación (Buenos Aires).
In addition to a publishing, literary, and teaching career, Martí spent his time planning Cuba’s fight for independence from Spain. In , he founded the Cuban Revolu