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.
