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 Entertainment | Books | January 2008 
Mexican Intellectual on Marti Thought
 Prensa Latina
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Havana - Mexican intellectual, Alfonso Herrera Franyutti, emphasized the thought of Cuban independence hero, Jose Marti, "as a man capable of seeing the events of today's world more than a century ago."
He has become a battle cry, a mobilizing presence in the Latin American scenario, he added. He is telling us truths that are needed now, which is why his theory and action must be known by all.
Invited to the 2nd International Conference on World Balance, held in the Convention Palace, with participation of 400 delegates from 35 countries, Franyutti visited Cuba for the first time in 1961..
Since then, captivated by the figure and work of Marti he began studying his life and ideology and researched the visit of the Cuban revolutionary in Mexico, expressed in his book Marti in Mexico, memories of an era.
"I researched new chapters of the passing of Marti through my country where he was known for his literary dimension, as poet and prose writer," he explained.
"I studied material from his visit to Veracruz, where he stayed, and covered his travels around the Yucatan peninsula until his entrance into Guatemala and then going up to Acapulco: seven days across mountain ranges on horseback," said Franyutti.
He recalled that Marti wrote his friend Manuel Mercado that his book on Guatemala that was not completed, and discovered two letters written to Mexican president, Porfirio Diaz, requesting an interview. In his opinion, it is a prologue of what would later become his letter-testament to Manuel Mercado.
Until now, he explains, the texts of those letters were ignored, in which Marti tells Diaz that the war in Cuba is not only for the independence of the island but also for the countries of North America, Mexico in this case.
"As a whole, this quantity of information has made my book the most complete on the life and action of Marti in Mexico," the author added.
Written in a captivating language, Franyutti wanted the book to be accessible to readers for whom he delivers the image of a human Marti, breathing and walking along the streets and landscapes of Mexico.
He further added that the release of the book in high Mexican political circles would contribute to a greater approach between both countries, "after the barbarities committed by the previous regime." |
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