Cuba: A wall painting of Jos茅 Mart铆 (1853 - 1895); poet; philosopher; essayist; journalist; translator; professor; publisher; and often seen as the father of the Cuban nation; Baracoa; Guantanamo Province.

Jos茅 Mart铆 (1853 - 1895) is regarded as the greatest of all Cuban national heroes. He was politically active from an early age and went into exile in the United States where - after some initial exuberance at the relative personal freedom - he learned to recognise 'the entrails of the monster he was living in'. He returned to Cuba in 1895; but was killed without firing a single shot during his first skirmish with the Spanish occupiers. Nevertheless today there is a bust of Marti; 鈥榯he sincere man from the land of the palm tree'; in every town; village and hamlet in Cuba.