SABER A TABACO (Wisdom in Smoke) documentary (Cuba, 9 min.) from factory 1800s Watch Video
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Description: Cuba's cigar factory Reader has been educating and entertaining cigar makers since the late 1800s. Born of the then-illiterate tobacco workers’ eagerness to have daily news read to them, the Reader evolved as a lecturer of sorts. For over a century, the tobacco leaves rolled by the cigar makers have been imbued with the Reader’s poetry readings and narration of masterpieces of world literature. Though the Reader is today an endangered species, some have become troubadours who, like Juan, spe
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