Jose Marti's Argumentative Essay
Throughout the late 1800’s Latin America struggled through a time period of revolution and innovation. Leaders of this change worked tirelessly for success on their vision for the proper improvement of there respective countries. In Argentina, Domingo Faustino Sarmiento was an Argentine writer, intellectual, statesman as well as becoming the seventh President of Argentina. He fought for a higher level of European education in addition to a modernization and Europeanization for all of his country for the people of Argentina. In Cuba, Jose Marti was a tremendous and outstanding writer and revolutionary philosopher who fought for the independence and liberation of Cuba from Spain and effectively preserving the traditional Latin America. By
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His view were shaped and influence at the early age of 16 when he was imprisoned for five years then exiled to the United States later. As a writer in the United States he formed a group of insurgents to eventually invade Cuba to start a revolution and release the nation from Spain’s control. He saw that Latin America blindly followed the world as an easily manipulated and exploitable puppet. Unlike Sarmiento, Marti believed that Latin America and Cuba in particular, should focus on securing freedom and independence so that they could then preserve tradition and culture rather than blindly follow a tyrannical Eurocentric power. The revolution slowly but surely was successful but not without the help of pressure and aid from the United States. Marti feared that the United States would just be another controlling tyrant to oppress Cuba economically and culturally. The fears are summed up by Marti said, “When a local problem arises, we are less likely to seek the answer in London or Paris. Our styles may originate in France but our though is becoming more American. The new generation rolls up its sleeves, gets its hands dirty, and sweats. It is getting results. Our youth now understands we are too prone to imitate and that our salvation lies in creativity. ‘Creativity’ is the password of this new generation.” (Marti, 9-10) In the end Marti’s fears turned to reality as the United States occupied Cuba in the early 1900’s effectively controlling the economy and almost crushing the sugar industry in Cuba causing a severe time of struggle in the
His view were shaped and influence at the early age of 16 when he was imprisoned for five years then exiled to the United States later. As a writer in the United States he formed a group of insurgents to eventually invade Cuba to start a revolution and release the nation from Spain’s control. He saw that Latin America blindly followed the world as an easily manipulated and exploitable puppet. Unlike Sarmiento, Marti believed that Latin America and Cuba in particular, should focus on securing freedom and independence so that they could then preserve tradition and culture rather than blindly follow a tyrannical Eurocentric power. The revolution slowly but surely was successful but not without the help of pressure and aid from the United States. Marti feared that the United States would just be another controlling tyrant to oppress Cuba economically and culturally. The fears are summed up by Marti said, “When a local problem arises, we are less likely to seek the answer in London or Paris. Our styles may originate in France but our though is becoming more American. The new generation rolls up its sleeves, gets its hands dirty, and sweats. It is getting results. Our youth now understands we are too prone to imitate and that our salvation lies in creativity. ‘Creativity’ is the password of this new generation.” (Marti, 9-10) In the end Marti’s fears turned to reality as the United States occupied Cuba in the early 1900’s effectively controlling the economy and almost crushing the sugar industry in Cuba causing a severe time of struggle in the