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    José Martí: Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties
    José Martí: Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties
    José Martí: Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties
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    José Martí: Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties

    By Manuel Pedro Gonzalez

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    Jose Marti, great Cuban patriot, wrote Spanish articles on the United States during the eighties. In the present sketch, the author has presented Marti to the country he interpreted so sympathetically and has made a living portrait of a rich and complex personality.

    Originally published in 1953.

    A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThe University of North Carolina Press
    Release dateJul 25, 2018
    ISBN9781469644011
    José Martí: Epic Chronicler of the United States in the Eighties

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      José Martí - Manuel Pedro Gonzalez

      Historical Perspective

      THE YEAR 1900 marked a turning point in the prolific Spanish American bibliography regarding the United States. Up to that date, we may safely say that Spanish American commentators on the life, institutions, and customs of this country were generally friendly, and frequently laudatory. Not even the dismemberment of Mexico in 1847, so deeply resented by Spanish America at the time, hindered seriously the favorable disposition of the Latin American writers towards the United States during the last forty years of the nineteenth century. Occasionally there were references and even angry protests against the agitation of some of the superpatriots of the United States who clamored for annexation of new territories or demanded that the national boundaries be extended to the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, or even to that of Panama; but since these expressions of imperialist designs had not crystallized into a policy, but were rather sporadic outbursts, usually limited to professional politicians, no alarm was felt.

      The first official manifestation of the arrogant spirit of imperialism took place in 1895. It had been gathering momentum for over a decade but so far had found expression only in some journals and in the speeches of certain Republican leaders. This time, however, the culprit was not an expansionist publication or a Republican senator, but none other than President Grover Cleveland himself through his Secretary of State, Richard Olney, whose statement, known as the Richard Olney pronouncement, was motivated by a dispute between England and Venezuela over the boundary separating the latter from British Guiana. In the words of Harold Underwood Faulkner, this document is a note that for its truculence and swaggering tone is probably without parallel in diplomatic history.¹

      The imperialistic expansion of the United States was now accelerated. In 1898 Hawaii and Guam were annexed, and part of the Samoa Islands in 1899. In 1898 the United States drove Spain from all her possessions in the Caribbean and in the Pacific and occupied Cuba, Puerto Rico, and the Philippines. In 1902 it imposed the Platt Amendment upon Cuba and took over Guantánamo Bay. The unsavory Panama affair took place the following year. The series of armed interventions and arbitrary acts perpetrated by the U. S. Navy and the Marines in practically all the countries bordering the Caribbean during the next two decades is too long to recount here. During the period 1898-1903, the phrase manifest destiny became a threat for Latin America. These events really frightened Spanish American statesmen and writers, dispelled their naive conception of the Monroe Doctrine, and weakened their trust in their neighbor to the

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