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“It is my determination not to contribute in the least…to bring to my country a regime of personal despotism that would be more shameful and lamentable than the political despotism it now endures….”

Es mi determinación de no contribuir en un ápice… a traer a mi tierra a un régimen de despotismo personal que sería más vergonzoso y funesto que el despotismo político que ahora soporta….”
 

(Excerpt from Jose Marti’s October 20, 1884 letter to General Máximo Gómez upon discovery of the General’s plans for establishing a military junta after defeat of the Spanish)