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Cuban poet and revolutionary José Martí dies

129
years ago

19 May 1895,

Cuban poet and revolutionary José Martí dies. He fought for Cuba’s sovereignty over Spanish and American imperialism.

He later collaborated in the organization of the uprising of 1895, declared War of the Independence of Cuba, in which he died Spanish shots.

The policy of Cánovas caused half a million deaths in Cuba and its phrase became popular: "To the last man and the last peseta,"

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