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José Martí

Died in 1895

José Martí was born in Havana on 28 January 1853, to a Valencian father and a Canarian mother. Arrested at sixteen, in 1869, he was sentenced to six years in prison, then exiled to Spain in 1871; in Zaragoza he obtained degrees in law and in letters. He then lived in Mexico, in Guatemala, where he taught at the university, and in Venezuela, where he founded a journal, then in New York from 1880. He was killed in action at Dos Ríos on 19 May 1895.

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