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  LA CUNA DEL DAIQUIRI
   

In September 1994, and after the balseros’ crisis, Cuba lived one of its most difficult moments in its recent history. The Cradle of Daiquiri investigates, from the most unsuspected depths of the depressed and dilapidated Old Havana, a series of interviews with rebel old women, housewives, young artists, political prisoners… And as a background and leitmotiv of history, we watch the desperate departure of the new Argonauts of the Caribbean: The “balseros”.

 
Desplazar hacia arriba
Desplazar hacia abajo
VIDEO PROJECT (fragment)
     
 

“I think Fidel is part of a mechanism of power which matches perfectly this age. But there is a kind of filter which masks the real working of power. In this case the filter consists on selling an image which is out of place, an image that it is already declining or out of fashion. And I really believe it is not so. That is the image which is sold and it would be naīve to believe it, I think there are many more things behind it: relations of succession, dominance, blackmailing, negotiations, and he is the perfect alibi to leave all that in the shadow.”

 

 ©Pedro Ortuņo 2010