Cigar factory

Among the rows of historic ancient buildings in Old Havana, in addition there are dozens of cafeterias that smell of urine once, there is also a cigar factory buildings crimson, Patagas Real fabrica. In all there are about 40 Cuban cigar factory. Cigars are not just a Cuban icon, but as one tourist attraction.Real Patagas fabrica, founded in 1845, or 161 years ago. This plant now has 700 workers who every day work from morning till evening.When the Indonesian journalists enter the building one floor of the cigar, all of a sudden most of the workers were laughing so hard. Apparently they work while listening to a reading of the book The Da Vinci Code written by Dan Brown. They laugh because there are funny scenes from the book.Every day with speakers in each floor of four storey building that, played the voice of a worker assigned to read a book. This is a routine event. The book was read alternately.During the day they read novels, read the morning newspaper that day, and after recess or before the return in the afternoon played music (all kinds of music). When it is assigned to read an employee who has 17 years had a duty to read to the employees there."It's amazing. This realization greeting Jose Marti of Cuba's human build. Cuba faced the U.S. can win the war not because of physical, but because of intelligent culture that is built up, "said Nenden Novianti Fathiastuti, journalist from Bandung Indonesia.In addition to the cigar factory, group of news reporters also went into the cafeteria at the center of souvenir sales. In the cafeteria at Old Havana, Santi, a radio announcer in Jakarta, approached the youth of African descent. He looked old Santi who wear hijab.The young man immediately said in a voice that caught the ear Indonesia like this, "You are the Java? Very good. American bomed your country in Hiroshima and Nagasaki, ha? F ... American ... You are Osama bin Laden, ha? Very, very, good, ... "The word java turned out to mean Japan or Japanese.Nenden and Santi confused watching Havana. "In my cigar factory feel there is the struggle of life. Beyond that is a party, dancing, singing, "said Nenden. Santi said another, "If political talk loudly condemn the young Cuban American, but when dressed oriented to America."In every corner of the new and old Havana street, people singing and dancing. Living there as in the party. Nobel Prize-winning author of novels and literature from the U.S., Ernest Hemingway, who once lived in Havana 22 years (1939-1961), once said, Havana is a true home. "Havana is one of the most beautiful cities in the world, more beautiful than Venice or Paris," he published in a book tour La Cultura Cubana.