Yesterday on the news I heard in Cuba are struggling to be considered a World Heritage site of the most unique in the world: The reader of tobacco. As know the manufacture of snuff in this country is remarkable. Beyond ethical considerations on the snuff, it seemed curious picture: While workers made the most famous cigars in the world, a man devoted to read all kinds of readings, including some high level. I offer an article that tells the story of this curious work. This is really encouraging reading.
tobacco Readers (Ciro Bianchi Ross)
A man reads while their classmates work. It does so loudly and thereby leads leisure time and instruction to those who, without looking and focused on what they do, are applied to the delicate leaf and snuff dark twisting his hands to form the band then become a smoker aroma. If they liked what they heard, those tobacco, at the end of the day, in approval, beat in unison with wooden pins covers their work tables, and throw the floor these curved blades, ideal for cutting and rolling sheet, if what they heard convinced them or not seemed inappropriate. Snuff
If the Cubans are the best in the world in its high quality and sophisticated influences, beyond doubt, the art of cigar reader that makes the print to tobacco sheet passion of what you hear. Only then, says the poet Miguel Barnet, the great pleasure of life is to smoke becomes supreme ecstasy.
is an original work, although only sister with what the readers chosen despalillo and the other phases of the development process of the twisting. Not repeated in other productive sectors. Cuban is one hundred per cent since its inception. An institution. There seems to be distant the date on which a proposal of Cuba, Unesco declared the tobacco task reader Intangible Heritage of Humanity.
not always tobacco reader took them all along. The man who read to their peers first appeared in 1865, the factory tobacco El Figaro, and was quick to gain the animosity and distrust of employers and English colonial authorities. Of the former, because a worker exploited best ignorant. Of the latter because they feared that the ideals of independence, take root and be consolidated with those readings.
The fact is that he was deprived first reader to follow in his barely six months after the first reading. By 1880, however, reappeared readers and consolidated a few years after the entry to the Isle of anarchist propaganda. But in 1896, began as the War of Independence, disappear again. Many tobacconists had moved to South Florida and Cuban cigar in Tampa and Key West were invaluable support of the Revolution. With his keys had applauded the speeches of José Martí, while readers of his podium place were perennial patriotic harangue and exhortation. There
readers throughout that period threatened and beaten and the reading was muzzled and censored it, as would also for the Republic, the owners of the cigar factories always tried and succeeded at times, exert control over what they read to their workers. What do you read? Soon the works of José María Carretero, who used the pseudonym of The Bold Caballero, gave way to more complex texts by authors such as Zola, Hugo, Balzac, Cervantes ... Carlos Loveira among Cuban writers, enjoyed the most preferred. Dumas and Shakespeare carried the palms, and such was the acceptance that enjoyed that characters created by them, like the Count of Montecristo and Romeo y Julieta, gave their names to famous brands of cigars.
also be read daily newspapers. Specialized readers had to do, while others were insurmountable as it related to narratives. When one of them was able to take to master both sides, was called complete player and was the most coveted. Because the square were removed from the competition. Tobacco themselves summoned the contest and turned into court chose that convinced them.
until well into the 1960's, we know, were themselves tobacco who reciprocated his salary to the reader. First, when the reader was one of themselves, each one made a greater number of cigars that belonged to him and the reader could prove compliance with the pattern of their working day. That system changed over the years and when readers began to be chosen by competition, each cigar contributed a modest amount of fortnightly cash to cleave the salary. Today
those readings are widened with a long list of Latin American and Cuban writers. There is tobacco that can repeat from memory whole chapters important classical and modern works. On hearing these books have been eaten, as the Bible says, they became blood. Readings at the same time delight and instruct and broaden the world, and ended up turning the cigar in one of the most advanced sectors of the Cuban labor movement.
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