MONUMENTO A JOSÉ MARTÍ PÉREZ

ESCULT RICO HERITAGE of the San Crist Bal de La Laguna Historical Complex. World Heritage. HE City Council of San Crist bal de La Laguna. 2005

Patriot and apostle of the independence of Cuba, born in Havana, on January 28, 1853, disciple of Mendive and Luz y Caballero. He was deported to Spain in 1871, public The political prison in Cuba, the first of many pamphlets that advocated for the Cuban independence of Spain and the Spanish Republic before the Cuban Revolution. He finished his education at the University of Zaragoza; where in 1874 he graduated in Law and Philosophy and Letters. Later, he lived in exile in France, in 1875 he moved to Mexico where he married Carmen Zayas Baz n, and in 1877 he went to Guatemala, where he taught for a while at the National University.

He returned to Cuba in 1878 but was banished again in 1879 for his continuing revolutionary activities.

He moved to the US where he lived between 1881 and 1895 in New York, he practiced journalism and founded in 1892 the Cuban Revolutionary Party, from which he was elected delegate for the organization of the independence struggle. It was that year when he founded his diary, Fatherland.
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In 1895 on the island of Santo Domingo he wrote the Montecristi Manifesto, in which he predicted war without hate, and signed with Mximo General G mez y Baez, the hero of Cuban independence. He landed with him in Playitas, in eastern Cuba, where he died a month later, on May 19, 1895, during a skirmish with Spanish troops in Boca de dos R os.

His life and his excellent Latin American work had reached its end ...

The bust is made of coarse-grained white marble and its pedestal is made of concrete covered in stone material.

On the base there is a bronze plaque with the inscription:

1/23/1853

5/19/1895

JOSE MARTI

National Hero of Cuba