José Martí: Indispensable thinking for Latin American peoples (+Christmas)
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Published at: 28/01/2025 09:17 AM
On January 28, 1853, the city of Havana, Cuba, saw the birth of the man who would give it independence from the Spanish yoke, José Julián Martí Pérez, architect of the Necessary War —as they called the war for Cuban emancipation— and a fundamental thinker of the new homeland, for which he used the supreme political thought of El Libertador Simón Bolívar as a reference.
Journalist, philosopher and poet, this indispensable for all of America, he had a childhood marked not only by the needs of his family but by the reality of his country as a colony of Spain, so from an early age he was involved, together with his friends and his teacher Rafael María de Mendive, in conspiracies to liberate Cuba.
Martí was a faithful follower of Bolivar's emancipatory ideas and Latin American integration, a lover of human freedom, of the land in which he was born, of dreams of independence and of a united America, ours, which should walk “in a tight box”.
Both Bolívar and Martí were focused on the sacred cause of the independence of our peoples from the Spanish colonial yoke, and it was the original merit of El Libertador to have predicted already at the beginning of the 19th century the very serious danger posed by the United States to the future of the republics that were emerging in the south of the continent, in the heat of the liberation campaigns in which he was the main protagonist.
When imperialism once again attacks the sovereignty of our peoples, the ideas of these great men become valid. Hermanados, Cuba and Venezuela are fighting to honor their legacy and defend the new homeland that they conceived and still emerges in Revolution.
EDITORIAL STAFF MAZ O