José Martí, the Cuban hero figure

José Martí (born in 1853) is an extremely important character in the Cuban history and is still very present in Cubans’ mind.
There are monuments representing him almost everywhere in Havana as he was the most important figure fighting against the Spanish colonialism.

José Martí represents for Cubans the figure of the accomplished man : a philosopher, a writer, a politician, a poet and a hero killed in a battle against Spanish at the age of 42.

For Fidel Castro, Martí is the “ideological architect of the revolution”.