 The movie was projected on a wall of planks, covered by a roof of palm tree leaves. It was all very quiet in a night of astonishment and discoveries for the peasants of a village in the Amancio Rodriguez sugar mill. "Hell, turn off that stuff, or my house will burn down", a hefty peasant armed with a machete shouted when he saw his house turned into cinema screen, a scene that showed the uncontrollable flames of a fire.
Eldo Ortega Toris, who now lives in the city of Moron, laughs when recalling how frightened he was that day when he and other humble people, most of them illiterate, saw a movie for the first time. The mobile cinema was in one of the most touching cultural projects of the Revolution.
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José Aurelio Paz is convinced that journalism-as stated by García Márquez-is the best occupation in the world. He recognizes himself as a snake charmer who masters the snakes with his voice and his pen as if they were small bamboo flutes. The snakes are the words he keeps swinging like a pendulum, dancing their way to where he guides them under the effect of an inexplicable hypnosis.
The Cuban National Assembly has roundly rejected a resolution by the European Parliament, calling it a vicious attack on Cuba.
Cuba requested before the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) in Geneva the reactivation of the case of the five Cuban antiterrorists, the detention of which in the United States was termed as arbitrary in that city, where the organization's headquarters is located.
I blind of Ávila it develops the vocational orientation of young toward technical careers linked to the agriculture, to respond to the productive necessities of the county of Blind of Ávila, one of those that more contributes to the national alimentary balance.
Since last Wednesday and until next Monday, Ciego de Ávila will be the venue for the second and final stop of the National Competition of Beach Volleyball for both women and men.
The Morón Fingerlings Unit has just started its yearly production. The season will last until December. This unit contributes to the reproduction of tilapia, catfish and other fresh water species for human consumption.
Some eight million 400 thousand voters, 71 per cent of the Cuban population, have the right to participate in this year's partial elections, the nomination assemblies of which are underway until March 24.
