Madrid Spain.- Given the progress of the works of the new hotel that is being built on the ruins of the Kid Chocolate sports hall and the Payret Cinema, and the recent removal of the emblematic cinema poster, Cubans have expressed their discontent through social networks.
“The PAYRET Cinema was loaded with a poster and everything, literally,” said the user Erwin Powell, who shared on Twitter an image in which the crane can be seen removing the poster.
“Another hotel for money laundering of the Cuban regime”, “Is the whole of Havana going to be hotels and hotels? What are the tourists going to see, some semi-human animals venerating landmarks of dead communists and living in Paleolithic caves? ”, reads the comments to the publication.
They loaded the #CinePAYRET with poster and everything, literally ? pic.twitter.com/g2mjtOZQXY
— Erwin Powell (@ErwinPowell3) September 18, 2022
While the user Echezabal JD I consider: “What Castroism took away… 145 years after the Spanish Government opened the island, the Castro dictatorship assassinated the Payret Cinema. They will turn it into another hotel for tourists that will result in foreign currency for the Dictatorial Dome in power”.
Echezabal shared some old images of the emblematic cinema and other current ones that show the deterioration of the place.
“The dictatorship finished destroying the Payret cinema, one of the oldest cinemas in the country and in all of America. A cinema that is a symbol of Havana, but we already know that the socialists do not like authentic symbols, that is why they are in charge of destroying them, in order to impose themselves,” said the activist and writer. Ariel Maceo.
The dictatorship finished destroying the Payret cinema, one of the oldest cinemas in the country and in all of America. A cinema that is a symbol of Havana, but we already know that the socialists do not like authentic symbols, that is why they are in charge of destroying them, in order to impose themselves. pic.twitter.com/hY2bHGV9sA
– Ariel Maceo Tellez (@arielmaceo86) September 18, 2022
The construction of the Manzana Payret tourist complex and the Pasaje hotel, a five-star category and under the direction of the GAESA business group, began in February of this year. When making the announcement of the works, in 2018, the Cuban authorities said that the project would respect this cinema, built in 1878 by the Catalan Joaquín Payret and one of the first to show films in Cuba.
After the start of the works was announced, an anonymous official source revealed to CubaNet The project was worth around 300 million dollars.
By that date, CubaNet interviewed several citizens who said they preferred to see the Payret duly restored, but maintaining the function for which it was conceived, since it is part of Havana’s cultural heritage, added to the fact that every day the Cuban people have fewer options for entertainment and culture.
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