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Just as a Cuban tribute from Cuba's great warrior/poet, Jose Marti:
I Cultivate the White Rose by Jose Marti.
Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca
por José Martí
Cultivo una rosa blanca
en junio como enero
para el amigo sincero
que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
el corazón con que vivo,
cardo ni ortiga cultivo;
rosa blanca.
Cultivo Una Rosa Blanca
por José Martí (Cuban Poet,1891)
Cultivo una rosa blanca
en junio como enero
para el amigo sincero
que me da su mano franca.
Y para el cruel que me arranca
el corazón con que vivo,
cardo ni ortiga cultivo;
cultivo la rosa blanca.
I cultivate a white rose
In June as in January
For the sincere friend
who shakes my hand frankly.
And for the cruel person
Who would want to break my heart,
I cultivate, neither thistles nor thorns,
I cultivate a white rose.
( translated by Mario Enrique Rios Muniz Pinot )
http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/i-cultivate-the-white-rose-by-jose-marti/
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From Lawrence, Kansas:
Lawrence artist Stan Herd stands in front of Rosa Blanca, a
landscape he is creating in Havana, Cuba, that depicts a white
rose. Herd returned to Lawrence this week after spending five
days in Cuba working on the rose. He will return in December
to Havana to complete the project.
Photo by Special to the Journal-World
Lawrence crop artist Stan Herd and associates made two trips to Cuba
to complete Herd's latest work, Rosa Blanca. The work was dedicated
Saturday in Havana's Parque Metropolitano.
Lawrence Artist Stan Herd has returned to Kansas after the dedication
of his latest work, Rosa Blanca. Schoolchildren surrounded Herd on
Saturday during the dedication ceremony. About 125 young students
from three Havana schools attended the ceremony.
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Jose Marti Wiki:
~snip~
By the end of 1889, Marti had changed his "sympathetic attitude" towards the United States. This was due to the U.S. wanting to expand their territories into Latin America. By this time, Marti was getting ready to prepare a campaign that would liberate Cuba. However, this campaign was in danger as talks "re-surfaced in the United States as to whether that country should purchase Cuba from the Spanish government in order to turn the Island into a U.S. protectorate".[60]
Marti argued that "any attempt to sell his patria as if it were some negotiable merchandise, and of course, without taking into account the wishes of people, was completely unacceptable - particularly when the prospective purchaser was the United States".[60]
Once it was apparent that the United States were actually going to purchase Cuba and intended to U.S. Americanize it, Marti "spoke out loudly and bravely against such action, stating the opinion of many Cubans on the United States of America.[60]
Marti became distressed as he knew that in order for him to gain independence for Cuba not only did he have to defeat the Spanish, but also had to keep the U.S. Americans out.[61]
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Monument of Martí in West
New York, NJ. Translated, it
reads "The Motherland is an
altar, not a stepping stone".[/center]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Mart%C3%AD[/center]
FREEDOM HERO:
JOSE MARTI
by Antonio Mendoza
~snip~
A fervent believer in Cuban independence, Martí was against the often proposed annexation of Cuba to the U.S. Martí's own beliefs reflected the dysfunctional love-hate relationship between Cuba and its "monstrous" northern neighbor. As a thinker, he was enamoured with the American love of freedom and its image as the land of opportunity. But the reality of Washington's own imperial designs on Cuba made him think of the United States as the "turbulent and brutal North." In an unfinished letter to a friend found after his death, he spoke of risking his life to stop the U.S. taking control of Cuba.
"I have lived inside the monster and know its entrails."
Though Cuba's greatest freedom hero, Martí was also one of the great turn-of-the-century intellectuals of Latin America. The scope of his written work is staggering: he was an accomplished poet, a revolutionary philosopher, a professor, a publisher, a journalist and a political theorist. The heart of his writings always embraced the concepts of freedom, liberty and democracy. His vast experience and education enabled him to move comfortably in the most diverse fields, which is what makes his writing so rich and timeless.
"Just as he who gives his life to serve a great idea is admirable, he who avails himself of a great idea to serve his personal hopes of glory and power is abominable, even if he too risks his life. To give one's life is a right only when one gives it unselfishly."
More than one hundred years after his death, with the Cuban people separated by two countries and two ideologies, both the communist and exile communities have called upon Martí as a symbol for their divergent causes. Fidel Castro has called him a revolutionary hero and has emphasized that his writings state that Cuba will never be truly free without economic, racial and sexual equality. While Havana's airport is called the José Martí International Airport and the Plaza de la Revolución is anchored by a giant obelisk in the middle called the Martí Monument, in Miami, the right-wing exile community and the U.S. government have created a TV and radio station to broadcast anti-Castro propaganda to Cuba called TV and Radio Martí.
More:
http://www.myhero.com/go/hero.asp?hero=j_marti
The Marketing of Yoani Sánchez: Translation as invention
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As one might have expected, Bloomberg and Reuters dutifully shaded their reports on the recent visit to Cuba of Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff with mentions of the Yoani Sánchez Twitter campaign to pressure Rousseff to intercede on Sánchez’s behalf and persuade the Cuban government to grant her an exit visa to attend a propaganda event in Brazil.
That’s not so surprising. Sánchez is an egomaniac, for sure, insisting that anyone should care in the first place, when her compatriots Olga Salanueva and Adriana Pérez O’Connor have been denied entry visas by the United States for more than a decade to visit their husbands (Rene Gonzalez Sehwerert and Gerardo Hernández Nordelo, two of the Cuban Five), unjustly imprisoned in the U.S. – but if all she has to do is tweet and the press come running, judging the tweet as equal in value to Rousseff’s criticisms of the U.S. gulag at Guantánamo...
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The interesting thing about this particular tweet however, was the way that the English language press went above and beyond simple translation and repetition, entering the realm of treacherous pure invention. It’s hard to tell where the invention originated though, since both Bloomberg and Reuters used the same “mistranslation” – nearly word for word.
Matthew Bristow and Cris Valerio, reporting for Bloomberg, wrote it this way:
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Jeff Franks, for Reuters, wrote:
A compelling image, for sure. A young blindfolded woman, harassed by barking men. Compelling, except for the fact that such a photo doesn’t actually exist.
An accurate translation might have been:
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And here is the photo. No blindfolded Dilma. Two men in military uniforms shielding their faces from the camera with their hands.
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http://en.cubadebate.cu/news/2012/02/06/marketing-yoani-sanchez-translation-as-invention/
