biography
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Martí (y Pérez), José Julián
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| lived:
| (1853–95)
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| biography:
| Poet, essayist, patriot and national hero of Cuba, born in Havana, Cuba. At age 16 he founded a newspaper La patria libre (The Free Fatherland), but his political activities caused his temporary deportation to Spain (1871) where he studied law at the University of Zaragoza (1874). He continued to write and publish polemical works, essays, and poetry, and his regular column in La nación of Beunos Aires made him famous throughout Latin America. Among his works are the poems Versos libres (1878–82, Free Verses, published 1913), and the essay Nuestra América (1881, Our America). As leader of the Cuban Revolutionary Party and the movement for Cuban independence from Spain, he planned an invasion of Cuba from his base in New York City. Acompanied by Máximo Gómez and others, he arrived in Cuba (11 Apr 1895) but was killed in battle the next month. |
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