By: Santiago Romero. Translater by: Guillermo Rodriguez. People still miss those timely vendors’ cries, not only because of their fine cheap offers, but because they were full of street wisdom and original phrases and single words that motivated a few song writers, troubadours and choirs of the nineteenth century as well.

Translater: Guillermo Rodriguez Cortes. The Cry of Baire for the Freedom of Cuba.At the beginning of 1895, the atmosphere in Cuba was frankly insurrectionary. The failure of the Fernandina Plan, when the U.S. authorities seized the arms of the expedition organized by Jose Marti to restart the Necessary War, far from discouraging the independence fighters, raised the revolutionary spirit.

Translater: Guillermo Rodriguez Cortes. The Cry of Baire for the Freedom of Cuba (Part II)

Translater: Guillermo Rodriguez Cortes. The Cry of Baire for the Freedom of Cuba (Part III)

Image: Santiago Romero Chang. Santiago de Cuba.- Many Cubans remember those sublime moments when the Revolution triumphed on January 1st, 1959, when Fidel and his brave troops crossed a good part of the country to the euphoria of the people, it is not possible to forget the prominence of Santiago de Cuba in the epic.

On one anniversary of Martí’s birth, Fidel asked, «Why not erect a living monument to the beautiful, profound truth contained in Marti’s axiom: «To be educated is the only way to be free?”