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cuba gooding jr. winning an oscar - best supporting actor, jerry maguire - 69th annual academy awards.
"the bay of pigs invasion (known as la batalla de girón in cuba), was an unsuccessful attempt by a u.s.-trained force of cuban exiles to invade southern cuba with support from u.s. government armed forces and overthrow the cuban government of fidel castro. the invasion — planned and funded by the united states government beginning in 1960 — was launched in april 1961, several months after john f. kennedy assumed the presidency in the united states. the cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by eastern bloc nations, defeated the invading force in three days and the event accelerated a rapid deterioration in cuban-american relations. this was exacerbated the following year by the cuban missile crisis."
see the real cuba and ask moore to address real footage. cuban luis moro tears apart michael moore using real footage from cuban hospital. see footage at luismoronews.blogspot-com. i am waiting to see mm whole film b4 i decide ,but i though this as interesting.
it has survived an economic blockade for almost 50 years but cuba has finally been laid low by a key shortage: lavatory paper. the state-run company that manufactures the island's supply has warned that the economic crisis and a series of devastating hurricanes has left it unable to guarantee it will be able to produce or import sufficient supplies again until the end of the year. "the corporation has taken all the steps so that at the end of the year there will be an important importation of toilet paper," said a spokesman for the state conglomerate cimex. the shipment will enable the state-run company "to supply this demand that today is presenting problems", he added. cuba both imports lavatory paper and produces its own, but does not currently have enough raw materials to make it, he said. president raul castro told the national assembly in havana last week that the government had cut its budget for the second time this year. few had expected that a decision to cut imports by 20 per cent to save government funds would have a knock on effect in the smallest room of every cuban home, with lavatory paper among the products that have been disappearing from the shelves of state-run stores. hotels are expected to weather the unfortunate shortage by importing their own supply. source
havana - looks like it will be close, but no giant cigar, for cuba's stogie-rolling king jose castelar. the 64-year-old former world-record holder has teamed up with five assistants, using nearly 93 pounds (42 kilograms) of top-quality tobacco to assemble a 98-foot (30-meter) cigar. castelar set guinness records for the world's longest cigars in 2001, 2003 and april 2005, when he completed a stogie measuring 20.41 meters, just shy of 67 feet. on tuesday, he said he is shooting for a fourth title. but castelar, who learned the art of cigar-making from an uncle at age 5, is likely to fall short this time: guinness says puerto rican cigar-maker patricio pena crafted a whopping 41.2-meter (135-foot) stogie last year. competition from cigar rollers in the dominican republic and puerto rico is stiff but friendly, driving castelar to keep rolling. "i'm working to take it to the maximum," he said. "we'll be back in two years with a longer one." still, in a colonial fortress across the bay from havana's main drag, his team is now crafting a cigar so long and so thick — more than 2 inches (5 centimeters) across — it can never actually be smoked. rolled for display at government-run cigar shops, it will be stored under glass, like others castelar has made in previous years. it will take five, eight-hour days of work before this stogie is ready for unveiling on friday at an international tourism fair, castelar said. hand-rolled cigars are one of communist cuba's signature products. the island sold us$402 million- (euro260 million-) worth of them last year, with top markets in spain, france, germany and switzerland. the united states is excluded because of its trade embargo against the island. castelar actually prefers to smoke cigarettes, but his first assistant, antonio gonzalez, worked tuesday with a thick cuban stogie between his teeth. made with three, progressively darker shades of bright brown tobacco and wrapped in newspaper for its own protection, their cigar stretched across 14 long tables lined up end-to-end. markers indicated that in 2001, six such tables were needed to accommodate castelar's super cigar, while his 2003 edition took up eight. by 2005, the cigar needed 11. the stogie is so long that, as castelar calls out orders, gonzalez must repeat them to four other men stationed at different points along the cigar, relaying commands down the chain as if the men were aboard a submarine. "move forward!" gonzalez barked, when it was time to roll one way, and then, "let's go back!" but if rolling the giant cigar sounds hard, imagine smoking it. "the tobacco is smokable," castelar joked, "but we're missing someone with the lungs for it." and maybe a blow torch to light it, too. source
well things are smoking now, aren't they?
