It still admires the immensity of the objective and how effectively it was achieved when one looks, as one does these days, at the newspaper Patria, founded by Jose Marti and whose first edition was published in New York on March 14, 1892, when the Apostle was already involved in the preparations for the Necessary War.
“Trenches of ideas are worth more than trenches of stones”, defined the thinking of that patriot, who was a renowned writer and journalist of recognized prestige in several countries of the continent, gained in Latin American places and as a correspondent in the aforementioned northern city.
When the time came to assume with greater intensity the path he considered a priority to achieve Cuba’s freedom, a final, quick and efficient war, Marti proved that he would not give up or choose one thing over another, as it has sometimes been believed, but rather a summation, a broadening of his work.
Of course, some issues had to yield time and priority to others.
Indeed, complexity was part of his brilliant intelligence, his ideological and political maturity, and his principles, not to mention the extra of feelings, the immense love for his country with which he seemed to have been born.
With the help and sacrifices of Cuban cigar makers who emigrated to Tampa, United States, where the Apostle of Independence lived for about 15 years, “Patria” had the sacred mission, among others, of influencing and strengthening the unity that would help forge consciences and seek resources from the patriots of the Island and the exile, from everyone, to achieve the sovereignty of the Island.
According to scholars, the Maestro never explicitly defined “Patria” as the official newspaper of the Cuban Revolutionary Party, and it even preceded the political organization he founded on April 10 of that same year.
But it is evident that both were part of the same project and had similar objectives, so there was no need for any statement in this regard, since their coherence was an undeniable fact.
And “Patria” deployed a summoning, mobilizing and agglutinating work in favor o
