Cuban students pay tribute to Jose Marti
Among the activities taking place in the municipality of Jiguani, are a meeting with the provincial historian and cultural gala in honor to the life and work of Jose Marti. The participants in the national camp will show their skills and experience gained in the School Explorers Movement and will spend the night camped out a few meters from the place where Jose Marti died.
People from Santiago de Cuba will pay tribute to José Marti at the monument that holds his remains in the Santa Ifigenia cemetery. The political-military act will be attended by members of the Association of Combatants of the Cuban Revolution, the main provincial authorities and a representation of the people.
The man who defended America
José Martí aspired to build a nation with what he called the “Necessary War with all and for the good of all," but he also included our America as expressed in the unfinished letter he wrote to his friend Manuel Mercado on May 18, 1895, as reported by Radio Angulo on Wednesday.
The National Hero wrote to his friend Manuel Mercado:: "... and every day I'm risking my life for my country and my duty-since I understand and I have courage to do it-to timely prevent with the independence Cuba that was spreading through the Antilles and the United States from overpowering with that additional strength our lands of America "...
Marti’s letter to Mercado written a day before Marti fell in combat in Dos Rios, is 115-years-old, and showcases the enduring value of his philosophy and his way of revealing the convoluted intentions and plans against our continent by the newly formed US imperialism.
Marti’s vocation for all of Latin America was evident in this letter. His fight was not only for the independence of Cuba, but also to stop United States expansionism across the region, summarized in: "All I have done and will do for this end," ...
America: heart and mind
Today, May 19, we commemorate the 115th anniversary of Jose Marti’s death in Dos Rios, Jiguani. It is worth highlighting his philosophies on Latin American, implicit throughout his work, as expressed in an article published by Radio Guines, located in the province of Havana.
His time in the United States allowed him to learn from within of the country’s drive for expansionism and of those who ruled in this society marked by the pursuit of hegemonic power. This situation aroused a spirit of emancipation in Marti for Cuba and all Latin American countries.
As a result he always defended Bolivar’s ideas: ´´Bolivar is in the sky of the Americas, watchful and frowning, still sitting on the rock to create, beside the Inca and the Ace of flags at the feet, and he is, still wearing the boots, because what he did not let fact, is without doing today: because Bolivar still has to do in America´´
There is no doubt; Marti's subconscious infused with the force of Bolivar’s spirit of liberation. Marti warned about the US’s main objective with Latin America, and more than once he called for the unity of all peoples to prevent the “giant of seven leagues,” as he called it, to take over the southern part of this continent.
Marti and the future generations: "Pinos Nuevos"
Radio Rebelde, also paid tribute to the National Hero this May 19 with the awards ceremony of the special competition hosted by the children’s program Solecito Mananero. Fourteen–year-old Erick Ismael Menbribes Segura from the municipality of La Lisa won for his drawings on the series of Principes Enanos of Cuban painter Maikel Herrera, who was inspired by the work of Jose Marti.
The jury concluded that Erick Ismael Menbribes Segura showed a high technical level to achieve accurate composition in terms of the interpretation of the work chosen, in addition to the development and mastery of painting and accurate description of the artist’s work.
In Camaguey, journalist Mariela Peña Segui reported on the Radio Cadena Agramonte website that more than 100 works of children and young people from all the province’s municipalities were presented during the Youth Seminar of Jose Marti Studies, a competition held since 1972.
Some 80 papers were presented in this competition related to the work of National Hero José Marti which synthesize the work of the youngest in this field.
Today, more than ever, the Marti Youth Movement needs to reach out to all young people and develop a relationship with the new generations. Nevertheless, they proudly admire how thousands study the ideas of the most universal of all Cubans, who did not rest a minute of his fruitful life, dedicated to the freedom and independence of his country and to Latin American unity.
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