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Sensible cultural and economic boost in Guantánamo

The eastern Cuban province of Guantánamo exhibits among its economic and cultural successes the embodiment of the so-called Chocolate and Coffee Festival, alluding to two of its main productions, whose fifth version gained space in the capital of the territory.

Sensible cultural and economic boost in Guantánamo
01 Dec 2021

Thanks to an improvement in the epidemiological situation, the province of the extreme east of Cuba was able to carry out the aforementioned festival extensively, although the activities were subject to the observation of unavoidable hygienic-sanitary measures. The initiative is commendable because in the same meeting, the organizers highlight the inexhaustible music of Guantanamo and the entire archipelago, along with cardinal lines of the economy. With local artists and artists from across the nation in a year where Guantanamo residents suffered confinement due to Covid-19, the Chocolate con Café Festival provides a giant umbrella for knowledge and possible businesses on essential resources of the region's economy. Guantánamo relies above all on its contributions of coffee, cocoa and coconut, NOT exempt from loss due to damages caused by the passage of hurricanes, the material difficulties of the country due to the US blockade and the effects of the pandemic. But in this complex context, Guantánamo hosted the first meeting of coffee exporting poles, as part of the essentially cultural Festival. The coffee growers, both the representatives of the farmers and businessmen, do not only have the aromatic grain in the exportable portfolio but others of agricultural origin such as aloe vera, charcoal and ginger. The meeting of the exporting pole also set the course to disseminate the results of the cocoa and coconut branches, the latter a true supplier of raw materials because the pulp, water, fibers and peel are used. Although farmers, members of cooperatives and land users have learned to intercrop other crops among the traditional ones to reduce losses from cyclones, Guantánamo is still the land par excellence for coffee, cocoa and coconut. Hence the wise idea of ??linking them with cultural traditions and expectations, to offer the rest of the archipelago and the world an image of a working people, determined to overcome setbacks, but with a willingness to guarantee recreation to the beat of the Cuban son.


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