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You will not be like Martí

There was no other martyr of our small country, as close to the children as Martí. However, being our greatest hero and supposed example, Fidel established an Argentine murderer as a moral and civic standard for children.

Estatua de José Martí en el Parque Central de La Habana © CiberCuba
Statue of José Martí in the Central Park of Havana Photo © CiberCuba

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I don't know how, doing webing I fell into a comments chat Cubaencuentro. As I wanted to release toxins, I decided to comment on the reason, not so strange, that the Apostle was stripped of his exemplarity for children, for the benefit of Ernesto Guevara.

I am very sorry to have lost a chronicle that I wrote years ago about Pepe's daily life in New York. In it she told how her close friends appeared unannounced at her house, when they returned from shopping, because Martí loved to smell the new clothes.

She asked her friend Carmen Freixas to see the wedding dress before she wore it at the wedding, and she gave nicknames to all of her future brides' clothes. Martí was an idol for his admirers, and not strictly in the sexual sense, although the erotics of the intellect exist.

Pepe had a sensitivity as poetic and sophisticated as his prose.

There was no other martyr of our small country, so close to the children. Not only did she write for them, but she treated them in an almost maternal way. His extraordinary charm for children did not go unnoticed by their mothers, their friends and fellow exiles in the Big Apple. On many occasions she served as their babysitter, staying with her children, telling them stories, drawing them and reciting poems of her inspiration. Martí was like the intelligent and helpful gay friend that any girl has today, but heterosexual.

However, being our greatest hero and supposed example for all Cubans, Fidel established as a moral and civic standard for children, an Argentine murderer, who was little and bad next to his own children, and whose career is precisely the example not to follow.

But the Cuban children say, "We will be like Ché."

And then, in the Cubaencuentro chat, a Cuban from beyond the seas, from the Island, explains to me the reason for such an affront to the Apostle. An unanswerable answer:

"We will be like Martí, he has no rhythm and is more awkward."

What do you think?

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Carlos Ferrera Torres

Architect, writer and screenwriter born in Havana, he has lived in Spain since 1993, where he has carried out his professional work as a fiction and reality scriptwriter for television production companies such as Magnolia and Zeppelin TV. He has written several theatrical pieces premiered in the USA, Greece, Argentina and Spain.


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Carlos Ferrera Torres

Architect, writer and screenwriter born in Havana, he has lived in Spain since 1993, where he has carried out his professional work as a fiction and reality scriptwriter for television production companies such as Magnolia and Zeppelin TV. He has written several theatrical pieces premiered in the USA, Greece, Argentina and Spain.