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41 Paula Street, Havana, birthplace of José Martí A sign at the Miracle del Mocadoret square, Valencia (Spain) where José Martí spent his childhood. José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January 28, 1853, in Havana, at 41 Paula Street, to Spanish parents, a Valencian father, Mariano Martí Navarro, and Leonor Pérez Cabrera, a native of the Canary Islands.
José Martí died fighting in the battle of Dos Ríos (near Palma Soriano).He was leading a group of rebels against the Spanish royalist army in the first skirmish in Cuba's struggle for independence from Spain (see History of Cuba).
Jose Marti was a significant figure in the Cuban War of Independence and has a legacy that is still prominent to this day. After his second deportation to Spain in 1878, José Martí moved to the United States in 1881. There he mobilized the support of the Cuban exile community, especially in Ybor City (Tampa area) and Key West, Florida. Cuba ...
Paul Lafargue, Cuban-born French Communist and son-in-law to Karl Marx; Pedro Pablo Cazañas, Cuban judge and politician; Rafael Diaz-Balart, Cuban politician and majority leader during presidency of Batista; Ramón Grau, Cuban president for two terms 1933, 1940–44; Saturnino and Mariano Lora, brothers and 19th century revolutionaries
Cuban literature is the literature written in Cuba or outside the island by Cubans in Spanish language. It began to find its voice in the early 19th century. The major works published in Cuba during that time were of an abolitionist character.
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The author José Martí wrote of the content of the newspaper: “En Patria publicaremos "La situación política," que refleje de adentro y de afuera cuanto cubanos y puertorriqueños necesitan saber del país; los "Héroes," que nos pintaran los que no se ha cansado de serlo; "Carácteres" de nuestro pueblo, de lo más pobre como de lo más ...
The Washington Mystics hired Jamila Wideman as the franchise's new general manager and Sydney Johnson as the team's coach on Monday. Wideman joins the Mystics after spending six years at the NBA ...