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February 24, 2021 marks the 126th anniversary of the beginning of the armed action organized by the National Hero of Cuba José Julián Martí Pérez to achieve the independence of Cuba, which has been called the War of 95, Necessary War or War of Independence of Cuba. Since the emigration and as the highest representative of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, which he created, Martí had organized the insurrection in the East, as in the rest of the country. To achieve his independence goals, Martí relied on the highest figures of the previous wart (first war of 1868-1878), and managed to structure a movement that responded to his orders without hesitation. The independence outbreak occurred on February 24, 1895.

(taken from the Facebook of Oriol Marrero, counselor / consul Embacuba Grecia)
Athens. February 24, 2021. The day that marks the 126th anniversary of the restart of the wars for the independence of Cuba, of the necessary and “inevitable” war, as Martí called it, is a patriotic, libertarian and propitious date to express that -As soon as the weather conditions allow it-, a commemorative plaque will be unveiled on Mount Olympus, the highest point in Greece with almost three kilometers of altitude, in honor of the Cuban National Hero José Martí, soul and organizer of the War for the Independence of Cuba of 1895, who also as a great intellectual, writer and artist who was repeatedly mentioned Olympus in his brilliant and imperishable journalistic, literary and poetic work, his own work, highly recognized, universal, humanist, great and tangible.