Cuba unveils Jose Marti statue, a gift from Trump's hometown

[Judi Lynn]

OCTOBER 20, 2017 / 5:49 PM / A DAY AGO

Sarah Marsh



HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba unveiled a replica of a New York statue of independence hero Jose Marti on Friday, putting a gift from the hometown of U.S. President Donald Trump on public display at a time of heightened U.S.-Cuba tensions.

The equestrian statue depicts Marti moments before his death in a cavalry charge in 1895, during the fight against Spanish colonial rule.

The original, sculpted by U.S. artist Anna Hyatt, has stood for decades at the south en­trance to New York City’s Central Park, not far from the gleaming Trump Tower on Fifth Avenue.

After former U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced a detente in 2014, the Bronx Museum of the Arts decided to gather donations to make a copy of the sculpture as a gift for Havana.

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[Denis 11]

1. The Bronx is not Trump's hometown.

Very few people in the Bronx voted for Trump, his golf course near the Whitestone Bridge has been the victim of vandalism.