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Vamos a echar mentiras al café Coca-Cola . Foto : Edwin Wide . live as if he has a lot , even if he ’ s missing everything ,” said Eduardo Zamacois .
Before that name , Café Coca Cola there met the literary and artistic bohemia of the country and also the one of passage .
“ Literature ,” recalls Ramón Gómez de la Serna , “ is not a way to eat , but you have to eat while writing literature .”
What happens is that the writer cannot be thinking of small things , and that leads him to hunger . There are many interested in that the writer does not eat , because his hunger is contrast of other fills .
Hence Honoré de Balzac drew a distinction between men according to their customs : the one who works , the one who thinks and the one who does nothing ; the man who thinks he lives in the exceptional life of the artist , and many artists came to Coca-Cola to satisfy their hunger with the solidarity of His talkative .
How many problems were solved around a coffee and a toast ? How many political and not-so-holy conspiracies took place in that emblematic site of our city ?
How many poems , verses , stories , novels , essays , speeches were not created around their tables ?
Serve a dark one Some experts say that coffee is introduced in Europe by Venetian merchants
in the early seventeenth century , but the first coffe-house in London or aristocratic parlor in Paris dates from 1650 to 1660 , Antoni Martí Monterde informs me . Moreover , he argues : “ Cafés are bourgeois , open to a new emerging citizenship that knows itself at the cradle of power , which does not yet see itself as a counter power , but which already exercises the critique of power and begins to think seriously To hold it , which accentuates the subversive character of the coffee ... Finally , our santanero coffee was transformed in 1906 into Café Coca-Cola .
This was due to two Americans from the Panama Canal Construction team , AC King and WE Black , who turned to entrepreneur Asa G . Candler , who already sold soda fountains in the 1890s in Cuba , Mexico and Panama , and even more since the start of the construction of the Canal in 1904 , migrating to our shores thousands of US civilians and military . That convinced the businessman to grant them permission to import , distribute and sell Coca Cola to these two employees of the PCC .
From 1906 , they distributed in wooden barrels , subject to hand-operated wagons , that circulated like dog through his house in the different areas of canal construction , among white , black , Chinese , olive , Arab , Venezuelan , European , Colombians and Panamanians , that is , the whole world .
Later , Candler granted another equal permit for Cuba , being the first two Latin American countries official drinkers of the black waters of Yankee imperialism .
Finally , by 1912 , say cokealized historians ; the formal concession was given to bottling the isthmus . The matter took on more form and the popular santanero coffee entered bourgeois modernity or , perhaps , redundancy , to its death .
Then the bars were invented , more canteens proliferated , with the passage of gray hair , clubs , pubs , and there is no longer anyone who stops drinking and talks loudly , like barking .
Many politicians invaded this historic space , almost no one remembers where our Demetrio Korsi , or Nicolás Guillén , or even Pablo Neruda sat there , to mention only the tolerated ones in an environment where , just by entering , you are already the center of all .
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Vamos a echar mentiras al café Coca-Cola . Foto : Edwin Wide .
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