"...the forces that each new reason for wanting gives man are the best defense against the deadly pain of seeing the man capable of the murder of souls, and of sacred ideas, -and of abhorrent betrayal."

("At Home", Homeland, New York, November 24, 1894)

JANUARY 22

On

at the Villanueva Theater in Havana, when several of those attending the presentation of a play shouted Long Live Independent Cuba, the members of the Volunteer Corps, a military force at the service of the Spanish colonial regime, unleashed a fierce repression. .

This repression, which also spread through the streets of Havana, caused several deaths and injuries.

Several decades later, in 1890, when writing his Simple Verses, José Martí recalls what happened on that occasion in Havana and also highlighted the courageous attitude of his mother who defied danger to go look for him at the house of his teacher Rafael María de Mendive. where he was.

In

Martí wrote a letter to his Mexican friend Manuel Mercado.

Two years later, on this day, Martí gave his first speech in Cuba in homage paid to Alfredo Torroella before his corpse was transferred to the cemetery of that town.

In

, during the inauguration evening of the La Liga venue in New York, José Martí spoke to the Cuban émigrés.

He was a founding member, honorary president and master inspector of this society dedicated to the aid of Cubans and Puerto Ricans of the colored race.

The following year

, Martí dedicated a poem to Angelina de Miranda.

He expresses to her:

Of a certain friendly night

I remember, at a certain feast

like a jasmine soul

And the shadow of a rose.

I saw two eyes without anger

Two eyes of starlight.

I remember a beautiful hand,

And two magnificent eyes!”