“Jose Marti, the leader and apostle of our struggle for independence against Spain, imbued in us this spirit of internationalism which Marx, Engels and Lenin affirmed in the awareness of our people. Marti considered that ‘homeland was mankind”, and he painted before us the image of a united Latin America, confronting the other America--imperialist and arrogant, “distorted and cruel”, as he said, an America which despised us.”