Cuba: A large image of Jos矇 Mart穩 (1853 - 1895), poet, philosopher, essayist, journalist, translator, professor, publisher, and often seen as the father of the Cuban nation, Matanzas Province.

Jos矇 Mart穩 (1853 - 1895) is regarded as the greatest of all Cuban national heroes. He was politically active from an early age and went into exile in the United States where ??after some initial exuberance at the relative personal freedom ??he learned to recognise 'the entrails of the monster he was living in'. He returned to Cuba in 1895, but was killed without firing a single shot during his first skirmish with the Spanish occupiers. Nevertheless today there is a bust of Marti, ???he sincere man from the land of the palm tree?? in every town, village and hamlet in Cuba.