Chocolates are an important line of products in the Santiago de Cuba's gastronomy, in step summer demand increases.
The aroma attracts you; the palate is moistened with a mixture of sweet odors, especially chocolate that stands out among the others. When you journey through their workshops, the workers can just flip the look, the sequence of the machines with their constant chirping, do not.
The Pasta and Candies Factory in Santiago de Cuba, even though it has almost 40 years of existence remains one of the largest producers of preserves that supply the city. It has two units; the pasta produced 1.6 tons per hour short pasta and long pasta that manufacture 1,150 tons in the same period.
The area also has jams, with two main workshops. One candies, chocolates tablets and dipped figures, with good quality and consumer acceptance occur.
"One of the productions is the increasing demand of chocolates, like those filled with rum, solid or filled with fruit pulp, mainly mango," told Sierra Maestra Manuel Betancourt, head of production.
"The Chocolate 500, a new offer presented to the anniversary of the Villa, comes in a wooden case, named Guamá Fanegas, with 25 combined units.
"We also have other assorted made with traces, in order to leverage resources, such as nougats, lollipots , chocomiel ... that are sold in the Ideal markets ".
Like many Cuban industries, this is also affected by the financial difficulties the country faces and the exploitation of equipment with decades of constant use.
Juan Antonio Remesae, technologist of this workshop that produces biscuits and straws explains that while in the area are these major productions, instant drink mixes, pizza and for dessert, sorbet milled cereal, among other alternately performed. At the end of June a plan of 5 million 724. 000 29 pesos was fulfilled to 120.5% with an actual 6 million 981. 000 460 pesos.
In the summer time demands increase and with them, the productions. For that reason, 56 tons of cookies were made; Sorbeto 1.5, 5 and 9 African crackers above plan.
The nimble hands of innovators are essential for the production of pasta, candies and jams in the old industries of Santiago de Cuba is not stopped.

Looking the Broken Things different
Machines with nearly forty years of continuous operation, and lack of spare parts, make it imperative ingenuity of the Cubans.
"If we stay with folded hands this factory did not exist, the productions had been paralyzed and all workers were off duty. When there is nothing to be invented, "Maintenance Specialist candy shop, Ana Rosa Hernandez said Terence categorical.
This female, is one of the vanguards ANIR center with around 14 innovations that have begun to move equipment worn by use. His work has become next to a group of workers to create and look for alternatives.
How many adaptations to bearings, shafts, covers, mats ... have passed through his hands, and with these, how much responsibility?
Adaptations of variable speed in the line of figure bathed in the transitional system and tank diffuser line of bonbons and recovery of movement of cold water to hot water system ... a myriad of equipment bearing the mark of genius and tenacity.
"The sacrifice of one can rely compliance with the plan of the company, and next to it the livelihoods of hundreds of men and women. So every day is a challenge to find new ways and solutions to what goes down, "says the woman with more than 20 years experience.
Cuba translates into millions of daily experiences of perseverance and will, without doubt this Pasta and Candy Factory is one.