Francisco Gonzalo Marin

Brief Biographical Profile of Francisco Gonzalo (Pachín) Marín Shaw

FRANCISCO GONZALO MARIN (Pachín)

Nació en Arecibo en 1963. Murió en 1897.
Fue autodidacta. Publicó su primera obra"FLORES
NACIENTES" en 1884 y su segunda obra "MI OBOLO"
en 1887. En 1892 publicó un nuevo cuaderno de
versos "ROMANCES".
Póstumamente se publicó su poemarios "ARENAS",
"OBRA POETICA", y la "ANTOLOGIA DE PACHIN MARIN".

Pachín Marín was born in Arecibo 9 of March of 1863. He was tipógrafo, journalist, musician, cuentista, poet and orador. By his political ideas and their defense of the towns submissive dictatorships he was exiled of Puerto Rico (1887), Santo Domingo (1889), Venezuela (1890) and again Puerto Rico (1891). He left two poemarios: Romances (1892) and In the sand (1898). When finding out Pachín the death of its brother (Wenceslao Marín Shaw) in manigua Cuban fighting by the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico, Pachín decides that he is   enlist himself in the Cuban Revolutionary army to fight by the same cause. The form deserves separate commentary in which Pachín at the same time enlists and knows the Apostle Jose Marti ':

Pachín embarked course to the city of New York to enlist himself like volunteer
in the Cuban Revolutionary army. When arriving at New York, one went to the offices
power stations of the Cuban Revolutionary Party with that aim. Coincidentalmente, that not by
chance, was Jose Martí who was to the table registering to volunta-
rios. When arriving to him the turn at Pachín, the dialogue between both patriotic ones was developed more
or less of the following form:

Marti ': " Name ".
Pachín: " Francisco Gonzalo Marín Shaw ".
Marti ': " Cuban? ".
Pachín: ", yes Cuban ".
Marti ': " Of what province? ".
Pachín: " Of the province of Puerto Rico ".

The answer of Pachín caused an impact in Martí so, that this one raised his Vision
in order to know so noble Puerto Rican volunteer. From there, they formed
a beautiful friendship that would be to be interrupted by the death of Pachín in
battlefields of Cuba.

Another less dramatic aspect of the life of Pachín Marín was not it the way in which he died in the Cuban fields fighting by the independence of Cuba and Puerto Rico (almost I feel like idiot adding who treated - and one is the same cause):

In November of 1897, during a dangerous retirement (and to request hers), his com-
pañeros of fight left it in the single enfiebrecido, battle front, very ill
and palúdico, with the idea to later return to gather it. To the return, they found it
in its hammock between manglares: a skeleton embraced to his gun, because the birds
of plundering they had undressed it of meats.
 

FRANCISCO GONZALO MARIN

Cuando un pueblo no tiene una bandera,
     bandera libre que enarbole ufano,
     en pos de su derecho soberano
     y el patrimonio, la gentil quimera;
     si al timbre de su gloria entera
     bríos de combate en contra del tirano,
     la altiva dignidad del ciudadano
     o el valor instintivo del la fiera;
     con fe gigante y singular arrojo
     láncese al campo del honor fecundo,
     tome un lienzo, al azar, pálido o rojo,
     y, al teñirlo con sangre el iracundo
     vera cambiarse el mísero despojo
     en un trapo que asombre a todo el mundo

http://www.redbetances.com/html/perfil_biografico_pachin_marin.htm

http://www.independencia.net/pm_mi_hermano_ha_muerto.html

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