Historical Figure

José Martí

Cuban independence leader

1853 – 1895

Total Mentions

Direct Quotes

1958

First Mention

2024

Latest Mention

Most Frequent Citing Countries

Cuba(27)Venezuela(7)Saint Vincent and the Grenadines(4)Nicaragua(4)Honduras(3)Dominican Republic(3)Spain(2)Paraguay(2)

Direct Quotations (4)

"The southern sea will join the sea of the north and a serpent will hatch from the egg of an eagle before we cease our struggle to make the homeland free and prosperous."

2011Cuba

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"It is a sin not to do what one is capable of doing"

2007Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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"Man is more than race, more than white or black."

1985Cuba

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"Bolivar still has much to do in America"

1983Venezuela

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All Mentions (46)

1988·Cuba

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It is the steadfast duty of the Cuban revolution, which liberated its own people from shackles, to contribute to the independence of Puerto Rico, as Jose Marti stated when he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party almost 100 years ago, and prevent Puerto Rican soil from being used for the launching of continu

1972·Cuba

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2- Assistance for the independence of Puerto Rico was a key part of the liberating strategy of Simon Bolivar and a constant theme in the teachings of Jose Marti. For any self-respecting Latin American it is still a duty not to be shirked. Cuba for one will continue unhesitatingly to do its duty, both within a

2024·Nicaragua

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ks to turn us into slavish subsidiaries, kept divided by the strategies of the Imperialists of the Earth. We defend our Supreme Dreams, with Bolívar, Martí, Sandino, Morazán, and so many Great Beings who preceded us and who anticipated the Duty to Fight, Fight and Fight, so as to Overcome, Overcome and O

2024·Venezuela

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s whatsoever, in a spurious list of countries allegedly accused of sponsoring terrorism. We also demand an end to this attack against the homeland of Martí and Fidel, which further deepens the impact of the blockade. Mr. President, 45. This new aggression against Venezuela, that is still in full swing, w

2023·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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ownfall, sadly and needlessly hobbling humankind in the process. Let us accord mature consideration to a matter of immediacy in “our America”, to use Jose Marti’s telling formulation. We urge our friend the United States of America — the most powerful and economically dominant country since the dawn of human

2022·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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ng. Without fresh hope, a desecration of our future awaits us. Fresh ideas are a core foundation of fresh hope. Over 130 years ago, the Cuban patriot Jose Marti advised that “weapons of the mind ... vanquish all others”. Through Marti, we learn that “[A] vital idea set ablaze before the world at the right mom

2020·Republic of Cuba

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protagonists shall go down in history as they should. Cuba's example shall prevail. Our dedicated health workers, the pride of a nation brought up in Jose Marti’s idea that My Country Is Humanity, shall be awarded the prize their noble hearts deserve, or not; but it has been years since they won the recogniti

2019·Cuba

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ety and the era of access and, instead, democratize Internet governance. The powerful and universal thought of the apostle of the Cuban independence, Jose Marti, continues to inspire and motivate new generations of Cubans. The words he wrote a few hours before he was killed in battle are particularly relevant

2019·Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela

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ing spent over five decades resisting the economic blockade. What will make them realize that they will never be able to defeat the revolution led by Jose Marti? Our sisterly nation of Nicaragua was also destined for a similar fate. These three revolutions on our continent — the Sandinista revolution, the rev

2018·Ecuador

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José Martí said that when a people emigrates, their rulers are the leftovers. There are plenty who prolong their stay in power and become dark, sinister Governm

2017·Cuba

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darity of our noble and heroic people. The moving scenes of rescuers saving a girl and returning her to her mother, a little boy picking up a bust of José Martí from the rubble, students helping families they had never met before, soldiers from the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior doing the tough

2015·Costa Rica

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o be able to live in peace, freedom, equality, justice and democracy and to have the opportunity, in the words of that apostle of Cuban independence, José Martí, to create, believe and grow.

2013·Cuba

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t the important thing is that the countries of Latin American and the Caribbean have come to the conclusion that the time has come for the region, as José Martí said, to walk in close ranks, like silver in the roots of the Andes. That is why we created CELAC.

2011·Venezuela

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de against our sister republic of Cuba, imposed by the United States empire for more than 50 years with gruesome cruelty against the heroic people of José Martí. By 2010, a total of 19 separate votes in the General Assembly articulated the universal demand that the United States cease its economic and trade b

2010·Saint Vincent and the Grenadines

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o a resilience that is etched in our collective history, and reverberates in the names of our region’s national heroes, such as Nanny, Garvey, Bussa, Martí, and Chatoyer, to name but a few. Our democracies can be neither bought, sold nor intimidated. And our commitment to the democratic inclusiveness of

2010·Cuba

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tion will unyieldingly and tenaciously pursue the sovereign path chosen by our people and shall not cease in its endeavours, based on the precepts of Martí and Fidel, to overcome all injustice.

2009·Venezuela

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It is our own socialism. It is a Bolivarian socialism. It is a José Martí socialism. It is a new socialism. It has not been copied from anybody else. There are no manuals for socialism, said Mariátequi. It is a heroic creat

2009·Nicaragua

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ublic security problems. Our model is based on democratic reform expressed by the people’s will, which we call “citizen power”. By means of the “From Martí to Fidel” campaign, illiteracy has been reduced to 3.16 per cent.

2009·Palau

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g. As a developing nation, we are grateful for the grants provided by our allies and partners to advance our development. They have been helpful. Mr. Martínez Bonilla (El Salvador) Vice- President, took the Chair. But we must acknowledge that outright grants do not always create meaningful employment. Jo

2008·Honduras

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ike to end with those thoughts on liberty, which is what our societies most need today. Let us ensure that the liberty advocated by our forefathers — Martí, Bolívar and Morazán — transforms the destiny of globalization so that we convert it into a globalization of solidarity, of justice and of harmony am

2007·Colombia

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e ongoing assassinations of defenders of democracy, such as those perpetrated last Saturday, in which the victim was Julio César Marentes and Alberto Martínez Barbosa, two candidates for mayor in Villarrica and Río Blanco, Department of Tolima, and members of a political party from the Government’s coali

2007·Nicaragua

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the North American fighters, the United States fighters; the principles of the European fighters; the principles of the Latin America of Bolívar, of Martí, of Sandino, of Tupac Katari, of Tupac Amaru. Those principles still live and will live as long as these forms of oppression persist. I have faith in

2006·Honduras

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great men and women of renown. Here in North America, Lincoln was a splendid guide for democracy. In the South, it was Sucre, San Martín and Bolívar; José Martí in the Caribbean; Villa and Zapata in Mexico. And in Central America, we have Jerez, Mora, Valle, Darío, Turcios, Omar Torrijos and the pro-union mar

2005·Venezuela

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e wisdom of the peoples and the new leadership that through its voice speaks for silent millions. We trust in the struggle of those who, as the great Martí said, have thrown in their lot with the poor of the earth. Thus some day, in the not-so-distant future, we will find ourselves in a better world, wit

1995·Paraguay

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ntinued economic openness in the sister republic of Cuba. It is a pleasure to recall that the great hero, poet, political leader, writer and teacher, José Martí was Consul General of Paraguay in New York and that his contribution to my homeland was at the time, and continues to be fruitful.

1994·

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rejoining their families. Such cruelty has no parallel in the history of wholesale violations of human rights. We do not beg, for our national hero, Jose Marti, the centennial of whose death in our struggle for true independence will come next year, taught us that mankind can never be ruled by cowardice and

1984·Burkina Faso

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he same battle against the same political traffickers and economic exploiters. 7. Thus to recognize our presence in the third world is, to paraphrase Jose Marti, to affirm that we feel on our cheek every blow struck against every other man in the world. So far, we have turned the other cheek. The slaps in the

1982·Geranada

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will be a source of great pride and satisfaction to us, the peoples of that part of the third world that the renowned statesman and freedom fighter, Jose Marti, called "our America".

1980·Benin

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fighters, enlarged and strengthened the domain of liberty and revolution in Latin America. The dream of freedom and patriotic grandeur of Bolivar and Jose Marti, which the invincible Cuban revolution made an historical fact more than 20 years ago, has once again become possible.

1979·Dominican Republic

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road of peace and concord among men and nations. In this conviction we must recognize, in line with the thinking of the martyr of Cuban independence, Jose Marti, the truth of the statement: "Our wine may be bitter but it is our wine". 38. Therefore let us welcome with open arms that small island in the Caribb

1979·Benin

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3. Great Latin America—which has so many glorious traditions in the anti-imperialist struggle, including the revolutionary flame of Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti, which is made to burn ever brighter by the heroes of the Moncada Barracks—has continued to fight against imperialism in that continent. 104. The Ben

1975·Cuba

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nal awareness foretelling the advent of a not-too- distant era in which Latin America will unite to form the community conceived by Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti which the realities of the present-day world are turning into a necessary goal. The historic task of Latin America will not be easy. It boils down to

1974·Cuba

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t, sooner rather than later, it will be completely independent and thus entitled to enter the United Nations. Fulfilling the mandate it received from Jose Marti, Cuba will never cease to help the people of Puerto Rico in their patriotic aim. 13. Providing undeniable evidence of the fact that the struggle for

1973·Cuba

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iant undertakings that today celebrate their one hundred and fifth anniversary, started the victorious march of the second independence called for by Jose Marti. 215.

1968·Cuba

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ver tried to seize Cuba would only pick up the dust of its soil, drenched in blood, if he did not die in the struggle; the people which gave birth to José Martí, that sublime poet who marched to his death in the fate of the enemy cavalry and who taught us to use the sling of David against United States imperi

1967·Cuba

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When Jose Martí, the apostle of our independence, was about to unleash the "necessary and just war" that would emancipate the Cuban people from Spanish domination, h

1966·Cuba

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onial rule over Puerto Rico, whose people share our language, tradition and culture, whose independence, together with that of Cuba, was advocated by Jose Marti to complete Simon Bolivar's unfinished liberating mission and to build a barrier against the economic and political expansion of the United States in

1965·Cuba

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ts sister in history and in aspirations, will speak for it. It should not be forgotten that, when he organized the Cuban war of independence in 1895, Jose Marti insisted that his aim was to free not only our country but also its sister island. We are united by history and it is therefore the Cuban delegation'

1964·Haiti

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ith the militant action of Toussaint Louverture, James, Desalines and Miranda, nurtured the seeds of freedom and brotherhood sown by Abraham Lincoln, Jose Marti, Benito Juarez and so many other anonymous heroes for the benefit of the peoples of this hemisphere and the future of all mankind. 29. Those rights,

1963·Spain

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olívar one of the great historical figures of the community to which I belong, as much our hero as the "conquistador" of old. I see in him, as in San Martín and in so many other leaders of the Spanish- American independence movement, a creole; that is to say, a Spaniard of America who, through the coming

1962·Dominican Republic

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mminent danger to which they are exposed. This danger is caused by the existence of a Government which, on American territory, has turned the land of José Martí, the great apostle of freedom, into a Sino-Soviet centre for military and political operations and for the ideological subversion of the democratic i

1962·South Africa

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rica famous in the. United Nations and all over the world. This policy has often been misrepresented in the United Nations. I am glad that Ambassador Martínez de Alva and I have been granted the opportunity, through the gracious Invitation of your Prime Minister, to witness the application of this policy

1962·Panama

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es ... have the greatest responsibility because they possess the biggest weapons of warfare-nuclear weapons…”. 133. But we also agree with Mr. Carlos Martínez Sotomayor, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, who said in the course of the statement that he made here last year [1019th meeting]: “... w

1961·Cuba

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e, under the guidance of Fidel Castro, achieved the age-old aspirations of the nation, as new prospects which had existed in the visions and hopes of Jose Marti opened out before it. 130. Ninety-three years after the beginning of this process, the single star on our flag shines forth as a symbol of the fusion

1958·Cuba

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ion tons of sugar were produced in a single year, and there were not sufficient market outlets. The President of the Cuban National Bank, Mr. Joaquíh Martínez Sáenz, with the help of his expert advisers and the country's other banks, worked out a financing scheme in conjunction with a government plan und

1958·Spain

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that Spain has raised its voice in the United Nations to make that request. During the eleventh session of the General Assembly, in 1956, Mr. Alberto Martín Artajo, who was then the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated Spain's spiritual position in dear and noble terms.

Year	Country	Context	Speech
1988	Cuba	It is the steadfast duty of the Cuban revolution, which liberated its own people from shackles, to contribute to the independence of Puerto Rico, as Jose Marti stated when he founded the Cuban Revolutionary Party almost 100 years ago, and prevent Puerto Rican soil from being used for the launching of continu	View
1972	Cuba	2- Assistance for the independence of Puerto Rico was a key part of the liberating strategy of Simon Bolivar and a constant theme in the teachings of Jose Marti. For any self-respecting Latin American it is still a duty not to be shirked. Cuba for one will continue unhesitatingly to do its duty, both within a	View
2024	Nicaragua	ks to turn us into slavish subsidiaries, kept divided by the strategies of the Imperialists of the Earth. We defend our Supreme Dreams, with Bolívar, Martí, Sandino, Morazán, and so many Great Beings who preceded us and who anticipated the Duty to Fight, Fight and Fight, so as to Overcome, Overcome and O	View
2024	Venezuela	s whatsoever, in a spurious list of countries allegedly accused of sponsoring terrorism. We also demand an end to this attack against the homeland of Martí and Fidel, which further deepens the impact of the blockade. Mr. President, 45. This new aggression against Venezuela, that is still in full swing, w	View
2023	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	ownfall, sadly and needlessly hobbling humankind in the process. Let us accord mature consideration to a matter of immediacy in “our America”, to use Jose Marti’s telling formulation. We urge our friend the United States of America — the most powerful and economically dominant country since the dawn of human	View
2022	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	ng. Without fresh hope, a desecration of our future awaits us. Fresh ideas are a core foundation of fresh hope. Over 130 years ago, the Cuban patriot Jose Marti advised that “weapons of the mind ... vanquish all others”. Through Marti, we learn that “[A] vital idea set ablaze before the world at the right mom	View
2020	Republic of Cuba	protagonists shall go down in history as they should. Cuba's example shall prevail. Our dedicated health workers, the pride of a nation brought up in Jose Marti’s idea that My Country Is Humanity, shall be awarded the prize their noble hearts deserve, or not; but it has been years since they won the recogniti	View
2019	Cuba	ety and the era of access and, instead, democratize Internet governance. The powerful and universal thought of the apostle of the Cuban independence, Jose Marti, continues to inspire and motivate new generations of Cubans. The words he wrote a few hours before he was killed in battle are particularly relevant	View
2019	Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela	ing spent over five decades resisting the economic blockade. What will make them realize that they will never be able to defeat the revolution led by Jose Marti? Our sisterly nation of Nicaragua was also destined for a similar fate. These three revolutions on our continent — the Sandinista revolution, the rev	View
2018	Ecuador	José Martí said that when a people emigrates, their rulers are the leftovers. There are plenty who prolong their stay in power and become dark, sinister Governm	View
2017	Cuba	darity of our noble and heroic people. The moving scenes of rescuers saving a girl and returning her to her mother, a little boy picking up a bust of José Martí from the rubble, students helping families they had never met before, soldiers from the Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior doing the tough	View
2015	Costa Rica	o be able to live in peace, freedom, equality, justice and democracy and to have the opportunity, in the words of that apostle of Cuban independence, José Martí, to create, believe and grow.	View
2013	Cuba	t the important thing is that the countries of Latin American and the Caribbean have come to the conclusion that the time has come for the region, as José Martí said, to walk in close ranks, like silver in the roots of the Andes. That is why we created CELAC.	View
2011	Venezuela	de against our sister republic of Cuba, imposed by the United States empire for more than 50 years with gruesome cruelty against the heroic people of José Martí. By 2010, a total of 19 separate votes in the General Assembly articulated the universal demand that the United States cease its economic and trade b	View
2010	Saint Vincent and the Grenadines	o a resilience that is etched in our collective history, and reverberates in the names of our region’s national heroes, such as Nanny, Garvey, Bussa, Martí, and Chatoyer, to name but a few. Our democracies can be neither bought, sold nor intimidated. And our commitment to the democratic inclusiveness of	View
2010	Cuba	tion will unyieldingly and tenaciously pursue the sovereign path chosen by our people and shall not cease in its endeavours, based on the precepts of Martí and Fidel, to overcome all injustice.	View
2009	Venezuela	It is our own socialism. It is a Bolivarian socialism. It is a José Martí socialism. It is a new socialism. It has not been copied from anybody else. There are no manuals for socialism, said Mariátequi. It is a heroic creat	View
2009	Nicaragua	ublic security problems. Our model is based on democratic reform expressed by the people’s will, which we call “citizen power”. By means of the “From Martí to Fidel” campaign, illiteracy has been reduced to 3.16 per cent.	View
2009	Palau	g. As a developing nation, we are grateful for the grants provided by our allies and partners to advance our development. They have been helpful. Mr. Martínez Bonilla (El Salvador) Vice- President, took the Chair. But we must acknowledge that outright grants do not always create meaningful employment. Jo	View
2008	Honduras	ike to end with those thoughts on liberty, which is what our societies most need today. Let us ensure that the liberty advocated by our forefathers — Martí, Bolívar and Morazán — transforms the destiny of globalization so that we convert it into a globalization of solidarity, of justice and of harmony am	View
2007	Colombia	e ongoing assassinations of defenders of democracy, such as those perpetrated last Saturday, in which the victim was Julio César Marentes and Alberto Martínez Barbosa, two candidates for mayor in Villarrica and Río Blanco, Department of Tolima, and members of a political party from the Government’s coali	View
2007	Nicaragua	the North American fighters, the United States fighters; the principles of the European fighters; the principles of the Latin America of Bolívar, of Martí, of Sandino, of Tupac Katari, of Tupac Amaru. Those principles still live and will live as long as these forms of oppression persist. I have faith in	View
2006	Honduras	great men and women of renown. Here in North America, Lincoln was a splendid guide for democracy. In the South, it was Sucre, San Martín and Bolívar; José Martí in the Caribbean; Villa and Zapata in Mexico. And in Central America, we have Jerez, Mora, Valle, Darío, Turcios, Omar Torrijos and the pro-union mar	View
2005	Venezuela	e wisdom of the peoples and the new leadership that through its voice speaks for silent millions. We trust in the struggle of those who, as the great Martí said, have thrown in their lot with the poor of the earth. Thus some day, in the not-so-distant future, we will find ourselves in a better world, wit	View
1995	Paraguay	ntinued economic openness in the sister republic of Cuba. It is a pleasure to recall that the great hero, poet, political leader, writer and teacher, José Martí was Consul General of Paraguay in New York and that his contribution to my homeland was at the time, and continues to be fruitful.	View
1994		rejoining their families. Such cruelty has no parallel in the history of wholesale violations of human rights. We do not beg, for our national hero, Jose Marti, the centennial of whose death in our struggle for true independence will come next year, taught us that mankind can never be ruled by cowardice and	View
1984	Burkina Faso	he same battle against the same political traffickers and economic exploiters. 7. Thus to recognize our presence in the third world is, to paraphrase Jose Marti, to affirm that we feel on our cheek every blow struck against every other man in the world. So far, we have turned the other cheek. The slaps in the	View
1982	Geranada	will be a source of great pride and satisfaction to us, the peoples of that part of the third world that the renowned statesman and freedom fighter, Jose Marti, called "our America".	View
1980	Benin	fighters, enlarged and strengthened the domain of liberty and revolution in Latin America. The dream of freedom and patriotic grandeur of Bolivar and Jose Marti, which the invincible Cuban revolution made an historical fact more than 20 years ago, has once again become possible.	View
1979	Dominican Republic	road of peace and concord among men and nations. In this conviction we must recognize, in line with the thinking of the martyr of Cuban independence, Jose Marti, the truth of the statement: "Our wine may be bitter but it is our wine". 38. Therefore let us welcome with open arms that small island in the Caribb	View
1979	Benin	3. Great Latin America—which has so many glorious traditions in the anti-imperialist struggle, including the revolutionary flame of Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti, which is made to burn ever brighter by the heroes of the Moncada Barracks—has continued to fight against imperialism in that continent. 104. The Ben	View
1975	Cuba	nal awareness foretelling the advent of a not-too- distant era in which Latin America will unite to form the community conceived by Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti which the realities of the present-day world are turning into a necessary goal. The historic task of Latin America will not be easy. It boils down to	View
1974	Cuba	t, sooner rather than later, it will be completely independent and thus entitled to enter the United Nations. Fulfilling the mandate it received from Jose Marti, Cuba will never cease to help the people of Puerto Rico in their patriotic aim. 13. Providing undeniable evidence of the fact that the struggle for	View
1973	Cuba	iant undertakings that today celebrate their one hundred and fifth anniversary, started the victorious march of the second independence called for by Jose Marti. 215.	View
1968	Cuba	ver tried to seize Cuba would only pick up the dust of its soil, drenched in blood, if he did not die in the struggle; the people which gave birth to José Martí, that sublime poet who marched to his death in the fate of the enemy cavalry and who taught us to use the sling of David against United States imperi	View
1967	Cuba	When Jose Martí, the apostle of our independence, was about to unleash the "necessary and just war" that would emancipate the Cuban people from Spanish domination, h	View
1966	Cuba	onial rule over Puerto Rico, whose people share our language, tradition and culture, whose independence, together with that of Cuba, was advocated by Jose Marti to complete Simon Bolivar's unfinished liberating mission and to build a barrier against the economic and political expansion of the United States in	View
1965	Cuba	ts sister in history and in aspirations, will speak for it. It should not be forgotten that, when he organized the Cuban war of independence in 1895, Jose Marti insisted that his aim was to free not only our country but also its sister island. We are united by history and it is therefore the Cuban delegation'	View
1964	Haiti	ith the militant action of Toussaint Louverture, James, Desalines and Miranda, nurtured the seeds of freedom and brotherhood sown by Abraham Lincoln, Jose Marti, Benito Juarez and so many other anonymous heroes for the benefit of the peoples of this hemisphere and the future of all mankind. 29. Those rights,	View
1963	Spain	olívar one of the great historical figures of the community to which I belong, as much our hero as the "conquistador" of old. I see in him, as in San Martín and in so many other leaders of the Spanish- American independence movement, a creole; that is to say, a Spaniard of America who, through the coming	View
1962	Dominican Republic	mminent danger to which they are exposed. This danger is caused by the existence of a Government which, on American territory, has turned the land of José Martí, the great apostle of freedom, into a Sino-Soviet centre for military and political operations and for the ideological subversion of the democratic i	View
1962	South Africa	rica famous in the. United Nations and all over the world. This policy has often been misrepresented in the United Nations. I am glad that Ambassador Martínez de Alva and I have been granted the opportunity, through the gracious Invitation of your Prime Minister, to witness the application of this policy	View
1962	Panama	es ... have the greatest responsibility because they possess the biggest weapons of warfare-nuclear weapons…”. 133. But we also agree with Mr. Carlos Martínez Sotomayor, the Minister for Foreign Affairs of Chile, who said in the course of the statement that he made here last year [1019th meeting]: “... w	View
1961	Cuba	e, under the guidance of Fidel Castro, achieved the age-old aspirations of the nation, as new prospects which had existed in the visions and hopes of Jose Marti opened out before it. 130. Ninety-three years after the beginning of this process, the single star on our flag shines forth as a symbol of the fusion	View
1958	Cuba	ion tons of sugar were produced in a single year, and there were not sufficient market outlets. The President of the Cuban National Bank, Mr. Joaquíh Martínez Sáenz, with the help of his expert advisers and the country's other banks, worked out a financing scheme in conjunction with a government plan und	View
1958	Spain	that Spain has raised its voice in the United Nations to make that request. During the eleventh session of the General Assembly, in 1956, Mr. Alberto Martín Artajo, who was then the Spanish Minister of Foreign Affairs, stated Spain's spiritual position in dear and noble terms.	View