Illusions and dreams of U.S. writer Ernest Hemingway are relived on occasion of the 65th edition of the marlín fishing tournament named after him.
Scheduled to start today and until the 30th of May, this competition, the most ancient of its kind in Latin America, for the first time in 35 years brings a group of boats and competitors from the United States, amidst the process started for the reestablishment of diplomatic relations between both countries.
Magic, mystery and sportmanship form part of a very well known figure to all Cubans, novelist Hemingway, who forms part of the cultural and touristic panorama of the Island.
It is all about a very close link, whose places and friends, legends and meetings can motivate more than one movie script.
His phrases, like that I am an ordinary Cuban , are icons inspiring painters, writers and artists of different expressions, but above all for different generations of Cubans.
The image of adventurer, fishing aficionado and other ingredients join this celebrity to Cubans and even in the seaside town of Cojimar one can appreciate a bust made from old anchors put together by his fishermen friends.
Such misteries make him present in the largest of the Antilles and as a distinctive mark there is a figure of natural size in one of his preferred Havana bars, the Floridita.
It is like facing the writer, as he had never died and his presence laughed heartily to passers-by and invited friends to one of his favorite drinks, the Daiquiri.
The drink is always by the side of the so-called Bronze God of American literature and pictures at that same place surrounded by friends.
Hemingway always present, the spirit floating in the air of that bar, full of people from any part of the world, to honor him permanently.
And over any other appreciation, the sea and fishing bring in this occasion over 100 fishermen from eight countries who will go out to fish marlins in the 65th edition of the tournament.