Jos Mart is recognized as the George Washington of Cuba or perhaps better yet, as Simon Bolivar, the liberator of South America. He was born in Havana on January 28, 1853, to Spanish parents. His mother, Leonor Prez Cabrera, was a native of the Canary Islands and his father, Mariano Mart Navarro, came from Valencia. Families were big then, and it was not long before Jos had seven sisters. While still very young his parents took him to Spain, but it was just two years later that they returned to Santa Clara where his father worked as a prison guard. His parents enrolled Jos at a local public school. In September of 1867, Mart signed up at the Escuela Profesional de Pintura y Escultura de La Habana, an art school for painting and sculpture in Havana."Read more about Jos Mart in the Exciting Story of Cuba by award winning author Captain Hank Bracker. This book is available at Amazon.com and Barnes&Noble.com or Independent Book stores everywhere.
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- History — Lessons from the past and the arc of human civilisation