The end of Mariel as a starting point. The dispute over Jose Marti from the Cuban exile

Although shortly after his death in Dos Rios, began to take shape the processes of sacralization of Marti and the canonization of his literary work, with the passage of the decades and during the course of the 20th Century the process was deepened. Towards the end of the 1980s and the following decade there was a huge exodus of Cuban intellectuals and artists in rejection of the isolation and severity and intolerance of the ideological and political controls that harassed Cuban culture. Although the ways in which each of them has been related to culture have been different, they all agree on the position of (re) thinking of Jose Marti as an exemplary figure. Mariel, a journal led by a group of Cuban writers and artists exiled in the United States, in his latest issue dedicates a tribute to Marti in which Armando Valladares, Reinaldo Arenas, Reinaldo Sanchez, Carlos Victoria, Luis Felipe Roca, Enrico Mario Santi, Jesus J. Barquet, Carlos Ripoll, Victor Batista and other authors write. This issue reveals an exhaustion of the figure of Jose Marti and can be considered a true turning point in Cuban thought produced from exile.