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    In Abdala: breathe Martí

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    En Abdala: respirar a Martí

    Is Marti alive? A simple question that does not intend to offend the Master or those of us who assume and study his thought today, in the Cuba of 2022, because the simplest knowledge endures over time; that's what he taught us.He also taught us about humanism, justice, social equity...

    He also instructed us in morality, ethics, democracy, spirituality, and to understand the injustices of the world.

    Moreover, what would the world be without Martí? What would have become of Cuba without his guiding thought? Without a doubt, the leading role of the Apostle has traveled from Our America to Europe, passing through the riverbeds and then to the bluest sky that can exist.

    Martí wrote Abdala, dreamed of it, idealized it. If we scrutinize the essence of the poem, it tells the story of a young black African who fought and died for the independence of Nubia, his country, which was invaded by colonialists. It is also the first play written by Martí, when he was only 15 years old, and published on January 23, 1869 in the first and only number of the newspaper La Patria Libre, printed on Calle Obispo, numbers 20 and 22, in Havana.

    Some connoisseurs of the life of the Apostle agree that the existence of Abdala described by Martí, largely, was an early reflection of his own, since over time he also faced contradictions that were generated within the family, before the decision to prioritize the struggle for the independence of his homeland as a life project.

    At last, my forehead will be adorned with glory!

    I will be the one, who frees my anguished homeland,

    and whoever rips the people from the oppressor

    that begins to destroy between its claws!

    Now Abdala returns to serve as a name to write history. It is a personified hope; with the effort of so many scientists who did not close their eyes to ensure that today, Cuba also has a sovereign vaccine to face the current pandemic.

    In addition, what do young people see in Martí? Lil María Pich, member of the executive of the Youth Movement for Martian Studies, expressed just a few days ago that "Abdala is a revealing play that goes beyond the well-known quote: Love, mother, to the country / It is not ridiculous love to the earth, / Nor to the grass that our feet step on; /It is the invincible hatred of those who oppress it, /It is the eternal resentment of those who attack it (...).

    “Abdala is an expression of the maturity and talent of that young man, a student of his reality and of universal literature; He rubbed shoulders with the most revolutionary intelligentsia of his time, of which his teacher Rafael María de Mendive was a member”.

    Neither laurel nor crowns need

    who breathes courage. Well they threaten

    a free Nubia, and a tyrant wants

    Add her to his vile slave domain.

    Let us run to the fight, and our blood

    taste the conqueror they spill it

    chests that are Nubian altars,

    arms that are its strong walls!

    For this reason, from Cabo de San Antonio to Punta de Maisí, we can assure that Martí accompanies us as a firm guide to show us that Dos Ríos was only a step to immortality, and that he will forever lead the path of Cuban men and women, alerting us and building a country “with everyone and for the good of all”.

    I stop, mother? don't you contemplate

    the eager army that awaits me?

    Can't you see that Nubia waits on my arm

    the freedom that a barbarian threatens?

    Martí had the audacity to prophesy the intentions of the United States and he dedicated himself to preventing them. That is why today's fight is also his, of all Cubans, who today vehemently praise the first vaccine of Our America against COVID-19.

    Also, what better tribute this January 28 than to look at our shoulder and recognize that it will never be enough to thank the thousands of anonymous volunteers who were and still remain in red zones, most of them young, Abdalas in its entirety, because all honor is little for those who love and found, for those who serve Cuba.

    Nubia won! I die happy: death

    I don't care, because I managed to save her...

    Oh! how sweet it is to die, when you die

    fighting boldly to defend the homeland!