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Bringing back tradition: the coalmen reviving a Cuban swamp
SAN AGUSTÍN: In a remote swamp in central Cuba, men hew wood and build large pyres that smolder for days as they keep vigil.They are the coalmen of Cienaga de Zapata, reviving an old tradition of making charcoal — not in industrial furnaces, but open-air fires.“It’s a little hard, but I like it,“ said 59-year-old Daniel Diaz, his face and clothes blackened by soot.He is one of a few dozen men taking part in a government-sponsored job-creation program to bring back traditional charcoal-making to an area where it used to be a way of life.Diaz lives with his family in a wooden house next to a river in the Cienaga de Zapata national park in the Caribbean’s largest wetland. He is one of few in th

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