“Martí is not a mystery” – Escambray

It is not the first time that his name is exalted during the International Conference for the Balance of the World. In this, its edition, developed as it is traditional in Havana, the voice of a Raigal Spirit was raised; of a Cuban cultivated by many virtues to speak, to bring José Martí on our day.

Juan Eduardo Bernal Echemendía (Juanelo) led to the event the extension or deepening of a topic always present in his investigations: the statute of the popular subject that was José Martí, although the exact title of his conference is “José Martí and the statute of the subject popular”.

With his modesty of life student, having grown “so close to the apostle”, he approaches the people of people, “the greatest human being I know,” he confesses.

Evaluated by Juanelo, the response of the Auditorium of Commission 3, was very favorable and generous. “The proposal supports Martí’s ideological maturity, from its humanistic growth, in the interpretation of a people, to the extent that it confronted the identity and resistance value of the popular cultures of all regions of the world.

“The need that Martí warned of political changes in colonial cuba derived, unquestionably, from the deep understanding of the popular statute, the protagonist of the majorities and claimant agent of these transformations.”

And it synthesizes: “The contrast of the people’s needs in the face of many times brutal of the colonial regime, and the understanding of men’s demands to convert the course of history, caused (in Martí) a premature transformation of their character and the establishment of a speech and attitude of sincere commitment to its time ”.

Martí constitutes a motivation

“From very early I felt committed to him,” said who is president of the José Martí cultural society in Sancti Spíritus, has 25 published books and more than fifty in co -authorship.

“And you can’t abandon it, because he never abandons you. That is a mystery, no; Martí is a partner. Sometimes, in complex situations you remember something that he said, it is like a hope that you find at any time and it makes it easier to understand that life has a utility: precisely virtue. ”

From the study of a multitude of texts of the apostle, Juanelo comes to the conclusion that the subject of parties is conceptually deals with as an understanding of socio-biological causes, where it assumes a high consideration for the values ​​of humanization and exchange, and cites : “The peoples, the same as children, need time in time like something like running a lot, laughing a lot and shouting and jumping.”

Martí said: “The national holidays are necessary and useful. Peoples have the need to assemble something great, to put their strength of belief and love in a sensitive object … extinguished the cult of the mystical, Álcese, Anyme, protize the cult of dignity and duties. Exalize the people: their exaltation is a proof of greatness. ”

He affirmed in his presentation during the VI Conference, that Martí gave “an extraordinary value to interpersonal communication, which has its expression in that infinity without limits that André Breton spoke, and that it can find a zone of perfect application at the party, without arriving without to be such when the superficiality of a time deforms the primary attitude of the interlocutors. ”

He assured that so much The political prison in Cubaas The Spanish Republic before the Cuban Revolution They are denouncing and programmatic texts, results of that affiliation of Martí with the broad popular sectors.

He quotes the teacher’s worship in the colors: “The church was adorned, hung from the ceiling numerous tapes with the national colors; The sun, happy they were reflected in the white dresses of the Indians, and more than the colors of the tapes, were there the colors of enthusiasm and joy ”

Transcendence of Martí in Sancti Spíritus

With his exquisiteness of poet, writer, teacher; Of burning and convinced Martian, our juanelo recalls: “I also taught history; Then I needed to give Spanish, and as literature and Spanish are subjects that by their affinity committed me, because I did it and because you cannot give a literature class if there is no historical inquiry; It is not possible to understand the event, neither men nor what happens in a literary work. ”

The president of the José Martí Cultural Society, resorts to the action to remember the importance of studying the apostle and how much is done in Sancti Spíritus: first were the Martian Study centers, the youth movement helped a lot, especially when there was a spontaneous sense of participation, there were people motivated and committed to their study.

“Then the José Martí Cultural Society and the Voces de la Repúblicas colloquium appear. That own year of 1998 we tried strength, and I told people: let’s make a brief event, to climb other efforts. We open what was called: the year 98, to treat the centenary of the end of the war with Spain. We achieved such a positive response from friends from Cuba and the province, and we said, we have more.

“I proposed to my colleagues to open an event of the Republic to discuss in a systematic way, and voices of the Republic emerged, in May 1999; This year will be the XXVII consecutive edition. We are dissatisfied, I think people, the more they work, feel more dissatisfied, because they believe it has to be necessarily perfectible or a greater impact is possible.

“The experiences of other places in Cuba and the world have served me to gain knowledge, especially people and their culture, but nothing is overcome to live in a place like ours, which although so many things are missing, I think they can recover, because nothing weighs as much as tradition. The weight of the spirit tradition will allow recovery. ”

Conferences for the balance of the world

“I have attended all. It is a space that grows fortunately – every two years in Havana; The first was scandalous, for personalities, projection, the presence of Fidel, the meaning of unity, the unity of people.

“Martí is the most beautiful pretext to congregate. I think that one of the best things that happens to the world is precisely this event, only that there are many reasons that block the extension of their world knowledge. ”

Are you satisfied with what was achieved in life or with life?

“I am satisfied with what I need to achieve. It would be a very comfortable position to say, I achieved everything. My greatest stimulus is not what I have achieved, but what I am willing to get. ”