El veintiocho de enero/January 28th
Image from cubajournal.com. Click HERE . ¡Feliz cumpleaños a ... José Martí! "Being educated is the only way to be free." - José Martí (click HERE for full UNESCO profile) A poet, philosopher, politician, soldier, and prolific author (he even published a children's magazine!), Martí is considered a hero by many, even those on vastly different sides of an issue (see this 2016 article about Obama's visit to the Martí statue in Havana for more on this). Martí, the older brother to seven sisters, was born in Havana in 1853. In 1865, after U.S. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, Martí and his friends formed a group to mourn the passing of this leader who had decreed the abolition of slavery (Martí was adamantly opposed to slavery, which still existed in Cuba under Spanish rule). When he was sixteen, he was arrested and imprisoned by the Spanish over a letter to a friend expressing his disapproval of that friend's joining the Spanish army. He was se...