Monrovia, May 19, 2020 - 125 years after the fall in combat, facing the sun, of the Cuban National Hero, José Martí, which took place in the fields of Dos Ríos, on May 19, 1895, the Cuban Embassy in Liberia joins the homage of all the Cuban people to his memory and example.
That day, Maximo Gomez wrote in his campaign diary: "We are already missing the best of our comrades and the soul we can say of the uprising".
The colonialists believed that with the disappearance of the organizer of the Necessary War the Revolution would also die, but his ideas and example continued to live on, prolonged in other batches of combatants. The historian Eusebio Leal Spengler has defined Martí as a preacher of the construction of a new nation, a light that illuminated others and, in the words of the poet José Lezama Lima, a mystery that accompanies us.
Martí gave himself up for just causes, those which make people great. His anti-imperialist thinking is a central aspect of his legacy and is very much in evidence today. Martí's ideas and his example continue to guide Cubans in their battles for full freedom and justice.
Embacuba Liberia