José Martí, our National Hero, fallen in combat, in Dos Ríos, on May 19, 1895, 127 years after that date, his ideas and his presence are still alive among Cubans of all generations.

About the most universal of Cubans, the leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro, highlighted:

"Before were the struggles for the destinies of our people, although they were already in part also the struggles for the destinies of America, especially when Martí wrote in his last letter that everything he had done and would do was to prevent in time with the independence of Cuba that the United States would spread as one more force over the peoples of America. Already Marti's preaching and thought had a high universal content, a high internationalist content and he proclaimed the struggle for the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico" which is still in the hands of the Yankees", a country that does not even have the right to invite a visitor. Already Martí was concerned about the whole of America, already Martí was continuing Bolivar's dreams, already Martí was thinking about Latin American unity and the independence of Latin America from the colossus of the North, the monster in whose entrails he lived."

"For us, Martí is everything that is good." Fidel Castro Ruz