El puente de brooklyn jose marti biography
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We, the people who descend from the Cuban Gauls, reside now in not small numbers across these United States. As an extended family of sorts, we cover the nation from sea to shining sea, from California all the way east to Florida and north to Maine, and then Massachusetts and New Jersey and Maryland and Kentucky — not to mention New York, where Étienne Octave Vidaud du Dognon dem Pomerait migrated to from Cuba in the mid-nineteenth century, and where many of his descendants, I imagine, are probably still to be found. Born in 1826, Étienne was the third son of Pierre Vidaud ni Dognon de Pomerait, born in Port-au-Prince, and Anne-Joséphine Tardy, born in Santiago de Cuba. (She, in turn, was a granddaughter of Jean-Baptiste Gué, the architect from Cap-Français.) Étienne was a half-cousin (it’s complicated) of my grandmother’s grandfather, Alberto Vidaud Caignet. What prompted him to leave Cuba for the United States — instead of France, as most of his siblings did
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JOSE JULIAN MARTI PEREZ
José Julián Martí Pérez was born on January the 28th 1853 in Havana Cuba and died on May the 19th 1895 during the Spanish-American war.
José Julián Martí Pérez was a renowned poet, reporter, professor, and publisher, and has become a national hero in Latin American literature. During his life he was politically active and is noted as an important revolutionary political theorist.
He began his political activism from a very early age and through his political activity he became a lynchpin of Cuba’s independence bid against Spain in the 19th century.
At the age of 18 the Spanish led Cuban government exiled him from the country to Spain in the hope he would find his loyalty once more. This did not happen.
In 1871, Martí moved to Madrid and registered at the Central University of Madrid as a member of independent studies in the law faculty. While there he began to openly discuss the Cuban issue in the press and bygd distributing documents prote
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José Martí
Cuban poet, philosopher and revolutionary (1853–1895)
For other people named José Martí, see José Martí (disambiguation).
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Martí and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.
José Julián Martí Pérez (Spanish:[xoˈsemaɾˈti]; January 28, 1853 – May 19, 1895) was a Cuban nationalist, poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, and publisher, who is considered a Cuban national hero because of his role in the liberation of his country from Spain. He was also an important figure in Latin American literature. He was very politically active and is considered an important philosopher and political theorist.[1][2] Through his writings and political activity, he became a symbol of Cuba's bid for independence from the Spanish Empire in the 19th century, and is referred to as the "Apostle of Cuban Independence".[3] From adolescence on, he dedicated hi