concluded the Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba enhancing the bonds of friendship between Cuba and Veracruz.
Message
Institute of Cultural Relations
Mexican - Cuban "Flores Magon - Mella
given by the teacher Gloria Sanchez
Lord State Governor, Hon. Ambassador of the Republic of Cuba in Mexico, presidium respectable, distinguished audience, thank you very much to each of you for your presence at this ceremony.
José Martí, the philosopher, reflects: "Death is not true when it has done well the work of life" and adds that "dead men give some light of dawn."
Here is the justification of the act that brings us together.
The Mexican Cultural Institute-Cuban relations "Flores Magon-Mella, founded 32 years ago during which he has been complying with its substantive task of disseminating the cultural values \u200b\u200bof the two brotherly countries, has the blessing of concrete on this day a cherished aspiration in the state capital, the Athens of Veracruz, the Master of America, José Julián Martí y Pérez, have a public space dedicated to his memory, just as Mexican heroes are honored in parks and tours of Cuba, his country of origin. Thanks to the Honorable City Council for their support, thanks to the Councillor Dulce Ma Dauzón to give up until the conclusion of the project and thank Mr Mariano Rojas Wall who, in molds Cubans, with their hands and love Mexico, produced the sculpture that we acquire the members of the Institute.
The booklet we have given it play some of the many facets of our honored guest, the poet, educator, liberator, the imperialist, the defender of women ... He was born in Havana, the son of English parents 28 January 1853 and he has to live when Cuba becomes independent not even in Spain, so since his teens, when he realizes the injustice of colonialism, spends every day of his short life: 42 years, to report the unbearable, what dignity does not tolerate, and prepare for the study of Law, Philosophy and Letters and the terrain of American life: to live in Mexico, Guatemala, Venezuela and the United States and meet the imperialism and interpret the reasons cause injustice, inequality, the shame and suffering of the impoverished majority in Our America: blacks, mestizos and Indians mainly.
Being a pacifist "trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stone" circumstances impel Libertarians organizing Cubans living abroad, as well as residents of Cuba, the Cuban Revolutionary Party, to undertake "The Necessary War," which is armed struggle leading to the desired independence, because " is preferable to the good of many to the opulence of a few. " "The poor do not succeed, but where the good are indifferent" ... because "When there are many men without decorum, there are others who have in themselves the decorum of many men, those are the ones who rebel with terrible strength against those who steal from their people freedom, which is to rob men of their decorum. In those men are thousands of men, a whole people, human dignity, "and" ... if its heavy chain a people dare not break with his hands can move people from tyrants but can never be free " but "No tyrant who confronts a people up."
dies in combat without knowing the outcome of his mammoth work, but leaves a written work that posterity has collected an inheritance cultural and revolutionary of all time.
remember a little their stay in Mexico. The young lawyer of 22 years would Veracruz by boat on February 8, 1875, from Spain to meet in Mexico City with his family waiting for him with the bitter news that one of his sisters, Maria Matilde dead as he crossed the Atlantic. "He ruled Mexico Don Sebastian Lerdo de Tejada, who assumed power after the death of Benito Juárez. " "The Republic was starting to enjoy their period of peace in the Wars of the Reformation, the French occupation and the fall of the empire of Maximilian." Through the mediation of Manuel Mercado, the Mexican friend who always boasts Marti, contact with the core literature of Mexico, the Mexican reality, the men of the Reformation, with the Masons and liberal thought, which is the yours ... Meet and mingle with Guillermo Prieto, former Secretary of Juárez, the Indian poet Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Ignacio Ramírez "The Necromancer", with Juan de Dios Peza and Justo Sierra, among many others, known to Rosario, who fluently unfolded uniquely within the rigid feminist concepts of those years, beautiful woman who inspired the famous Night of Manuel Acuña.
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inspired Martí writes:
; As you think, in your hair
That shadow world would envy,
And I put a point in my life in them
And I wanted to dream that you were mine.
Passing love to finish in a beautiful friendship.
Martí integrates beautifully to the intelligentsia of the time entered the Liceo Hidalgo, he writes in "The Magazine" on various subjects: literature, politics, indigenous, conflicts with the United States, the situation of Cuba, quiet ambitions of the clergy, labor strikes and economic issues of protectionism and free However, also plays and art criticism. It was because "a more Mexican."
Excited the Republic who lives at home while slavery prevails, writes: "Mexico, on this day in the sun reverberates in your glory, let me tremolo your flag, waving Yo I can not mine!"
also known here in the Cuban to be his wife.
In 1876, Lerdo is declared re-elected as a result of the vote, June; Jose Maria Iglesias, president of the Supreme Court, known as Porfirio Díaz's reelection defeat the forces of government, it falls apart and anarchy spreads. Lerdo and his ministers into exile and Diaz entered on 23 November in the capital of the Republic under the banner of "no reelection" ... 30 years later, he remains in power.
Martí no longer find suitable climate to stay in Mexico, he had been faithful to the cause and spread Lerdist saddens him.
decides to leave Guatemala in 1877, leaving a wealth of written clarification of its political position.
Back to marry Carmen Zayas Bazán and Hidalgo in the town of returns to Mexico and Guatemala. From there to Cuba, where he was again expelled, goes to Spain, then to Paris and then New York, where he meets diplomatic tasks and prolific literary production, journalistic and organizational support for the independence of Cuba.
Dieciniueve years elapse since his departure and his correspondence with friends is not interrupted their collaboration in the national press remains constant.
missed Returns to Mexico to strengthen their cause after visiting several points of the American Union Central America and the Caribbean ... Sick, sustained only by the unwavering ideal travels carrying the voice of the nation captive.
Conference with whom he has to, in the capital and the port of Veracruz, where he visited his friend Salvador Diaz Miron, then imprisoned and share poems.
The May 18, 1895, the eve of his death in combat in the Cuban camp of Two Rivers writes to whom else? his Mexican friend Manuel Mercado, the last letter explains What of their struggle, a document that goes down in history as his political testament ...
The "Centennial Generation" of his birth, Cuba takes in the way of the master, performs the most profound social transformation of the continent and now humanistic ideals are reached because: "... honest souls are without speak, and tightened to resist, and expire at the end! "and "losing a battle is only required to win another," and "The heart is her way to make wings and anchors" ... "I want the law of our republic is the cult of the Cuban the full dignity of man "..." While schools have standing, there will be people on their knees. " "Happiness exists on earth, and conquest with the prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity," "The government of men is the highest mission of being human, and should only rely on the men who love and understand nature. "
also tells us:
, "... Since the heart is home for the memories, the monument is home to the heroes."
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Master Marti, hero admired:
This is your own home, located near the Meritorious Normal School, founded by liberals like you, that despite the neoliberal onslaught of this, thanks to the beauty of their children is kept upright.
around you also prestigious universities who study and preserve the cultures of the Indians who defended both ...
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That foliage of these trees and flowers of Xalapa beautify with colors and perfume with its scent your presence among us!
Eternal glory to those who like you, like Juarez and Bolivar, gave their lives to build the great American nation, dignified, united and independent!
Many thanks. The overture was by an orchestral ensemble Xalapa. played Cuban master Siboney Ernesto Lecuona.
