Cuban History Gallery
Jose Marti

Aside from being one of the major figures in the struggle for Cuban independence,
Martí is considered one of the great writers of the Hispanic world.
“It would require a composite of Washington, Jefferson, and Lincoln,� wrote
Ramón Eduardo Ruíz in Cuba: the Making of a Revolution,
“supplemented by the best of Henry James, Emerson, and Twain
to suggest a comparable figure.�