Hemingway House - Cuba

June 2008
Ernest Hemingway lived outside Havana for more than 20 years. Now falling into disrepair, his former home is the centre of a political battle between the US and the Castro regime.
Hemingway wrote some of his most famous books in Cuba and his house is full of his original writings and and manuscripts, requiring an expensive and painstaking preservation process. Financial help is badly needed from the US but is denied thanks to the trade embargo. "This is really stupid. This harms our own preservation of our own culture and histories." Claims Steve Clemons of the US based New American Foundation.

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[JustKushty]

For those who don't speak Spanish, the lady @ 0:20 is saying that while Hemingway wrote mediocre novels in a journalistic style, her main concern was keeping her pre-pubescent boys away from him. As a renowned kiddy-fiddler, he'd often trawl the local slums on the look out for victims. Luckily, however, the fact that he was heavily made-up and his lipstick was as clumsily applied as his literary symbolism, most children would run away in terror as soon as he approached with mincing steps.

[raulitech]

journeymanpictures, you need to let your pc encode the video without doing other things at the same time. shut down all other programs and leave the pc alone while you prepare the videos for this. Great videos, don't get me wrong but otherwise its silly to hear these sounds.

[wingzero890]

Fix the fucking sound artifacts. We were trying to watch this in our Lit class and it was very distracting.

[treid100182]

@gladys12373

yeah, wtf is that?

[burns4130]

@JustKushty I'd like to see you write ten pages that last fifteen minutes. How this got to be top comment I'll never know. What slander.

[gladys12373]

The "bonging" noise is really distracting. Otherwise, very interesting.

[PoliticalWeekly]

@JustKushty Damn.

[lostindiancamp]

What is that sound?

[Rico8458]

soviets fell cuba has no back up now. so let us invade them and free the people.

[ehem799]

If the Finca Vigia were anywhere else, the US govt. would be involved. How Ironic it is that we live in a world which now so freely supports what was viewed as our biggest threat to world peace. Isn't China still a communist country? Nothing against China, Yet we still hold Trade Embargoes against our close neighbor ,who surely could use our help economically. Cuba once was a beautiful place to visit ,  We so freely support the Chinese , but can't help our own neighbors .Where's the justice?