Cuban Poet Jose Marti

The little yellow house with blue trim where Cuban independence hero and poet Jose Marti was born 150 years ago is a shrine visited by hundreds of people every day. Black-and-white photos show a ...

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Cuban state police detained several artists and activists of the 27N Movement, including Tania Bruguera and poet Katherine Bisquet, who planned a peaceful homage to the Cuban author and journalist ...

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José Julián Martí Pérez was a 19th century Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role ...

José Martí was a well-known Cuban writer from the late 1800s and Giovanni Fernández of Littera Cuba [es] writes that Martí “tried to paint the world through metaphor incarnated in prose and poetry.” ...

Yahoo: Cuban play about Jose Martí makes debut in Miami with simultaneous translation

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Cuban play about Jose Martí makes debut in Miami with simultaneous translation

For those who grew up in a Cuban home, childhood stories of José Martí described the legendary poet and revolutionary charging the Spanish lines astride a white steed, waving his sword overhead.

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The Biden administration expressed its support of people's right to demonstrate peacefully and condemned the Cuban government's violent response to the protests. (Portions of this text were adapted from the entry on "Cuba" for the New World Encyclopedia.) Read full country profile

National Symbols Law No. 42 for National Symbols of the National Assembly of the People’s Power of 1983 and Article 4, Chapter I, “The political, social and economic foundations of the State” of the Constitution of the Republic of Cuba establishes that the Symbols of the Cuban nation are those that for over one hundred years have presided over the Cuban struggles for Independence, for ...