Cairo, May 19, 2025. Cubans, Latin Americans and Egyptians commemorated today in this capital the 130th anniversary of the fall in combat of the National Hero of that Caribbean island, José Martí, during the struggle for the independence of that country.
In front of Marti's bust, located in Al Horreya Park, representatives of the diplomatic corps accredited here, Egyptian parties and friends of the Antillean country gathered to remember and pay homage to the most universal of Cubans.
We gathered to pay a well-deserved tribute to Martí, for the validity of his political and social thought and the depth of his ideas, said the Cuban ambassador to Egypt, Alexander Pellicer.
He was a man of letters who transcended his time, but never hesitated to sacrifice his vocation as an intellectual to fight for the freedom of the homeland and was faithful to his ideas until he died on the battlefield, he stressed.
The diplomat stressed that with “his physical departure we lost the great organizer and ideologist of the Revolution (...) but he left a vast literary and political work, and a legacy that continues today”.
Martí was a great Latin Americanist and a faithful follower of the ideas of the Liberator Simón Bolívar and other heroes of our America, he said.
Pellicer also detailed his work as a writer, diplomat and statesman, as well as his desire to unite the Latin American peoples in a great homeland.
For his part, Ashraf Mounir, director for the Americas of the Egyptian Foreign Ministry, highlighted the legacy of the Cuban hero and the ties between the two nations in various matters.
As an example of the ties, he cited the historic relations between former President Gamal Abdel Nasser and the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro. (Embacuba Egipto/Prensa Latina)