The cemetery that holds Cuba’s soul. Inside the Santa Ifigenia Cemetery in Santiago de Cuba resides a tomb that holds a handful of soil from every country in Latin America. The tomb of Jose Marti, a Cuban patriot and central figure in Cuba’s War of Independence from Spain. The soil is there to symbolize Marti’s influence in the hemisphere. As in much of Latin America, and indeed the world, cemeteries in Cuba are a grand affair. Many house museum-worthy funerary statuary and elaborate mausoleums that line broad avenues crisscrossing manicured…
