With immediacy, professionalism and authenticity through the development of artistic handicraft looks adding virtues, the Cienfuegos branch of the Cuban Fund of Cultural Goods (FCBC) will start exporting products.

The senior specialist of the Group of Imports and Exports of the FCBC, Ericel Alvarez Estopiñales, highlighted the form of non-state management that includes craftsmen and self-employed workers.

"Productions of high cultural value, he said, are made by the artists and craftsmen of the Cuban Fund for Cultural Goods branch in the province, that have recognized talent.

"We are working on the survey of the main products that can be exported to the markets. We carry out market studies, mainly in the Caribbean and Latin American regions," Alvarez Estopiñales added.

"To this end, we have set aside a workshop for the production of "guayaberas", whose basic raw materials are already in our warehouses. The intention is to improve the machinery to raise the quality of this type of clothing," he said.

Some products are identified in the spaces where they sold for tourism, and according to Ericel "we are working with a creator of the province on the subject of fibers, mainly those destined for furniture.

"I am referring to tobacco handicrafts such as cases in different formats, and works with fibers, which come from the hands of the craftsman Rodolfo Carvajal", he pointed out.

Ericel also mentioned some of the minor percussion musical instruments such as the "batá", the bongo, the "chequeré" and the African "claves", which are included in the exportable funds listed"

English version Hector Hdez.