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- José Julián Martí - Student Encyclopedia (Ages 11 and up)
(1853-95). Cuba’s foremost patriot in the struggle for independence from Spain was the poet and essayist Jose Julian Marti. His lifelong dedication to Cuban freedom was spelled out in essays and poems that circulated throughout the Latin American countries. He considered himself a citizen of all the Americas, and his essays did much to promote better relations between the United States and Latin America as well as between the Latin American nations themselves.