Jose Marti was born on a day like this in 1853. He died in 1895 during a confrontation with Spanish troops in the long and very costly Cuban War of Independence.
Back in 2013, we chatted with Jorge Ponce, a Cuban American who left the island as a youngster with his parents, and Alfredo Cespero from Miami. They joined me for a discussion of Jose Marti's life and what it means for those of us who grew up in the US.
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