Neighbors of the Artemiseño town of Quiebra Hacha participated in a raffle in which they used a curiel to define the winner.
It happened during the traditional “Fiesta de San Antonio” that is celebrated every June 13 in that town and the images were shared by a Tik Tok user in a nicevideo which showed the unique draw.
At the price of 100 pesos each bet, local residents choose between 30 numbers awarded with different products, mostly bottles of rum and other liquors, arranged in the shape of a circle.
Each of these prizes is on a small support with an opening. Once the bets are made, the organizer takes a small box where the curiel is and, after going around a few times, lets him leave his box and look for another one to hide in, one of the ones with a prize.
The choice of rodent determines the prize winner. While one wins, 29 lose and the owner of the curiel takes 3,000 pesos. But, judging by the tiktoker's comments, everyone is having fun with this entertaining raffle.
According to carli86loli, in the popular festivals of Quiebra Hacha - a town in the Mariel municipality, in Artemisa - this curious game of the curiel raffle has always been seen.
“You know, popular festivals, everyone is extremely drunk and what they want is a bottle of alcohol,” explained the tiktoker who then acknowledged that inexplicably, the curiel almost never enters the booths with spirit drinks. , but in others that carry other prizes such as “games or dolls” (which makes players insist on their bet).
With a sense of humor, the Cuban confessed that he had played several times, but that he never saw the mouse enter the coveted booths. “I don't know, for me, the Curiel wasn't a drunk,” he said.
Without quite understanding how this was possible, the young man brought a curiel from “a little neighbor” to replace the raffle official. And what was his surprise when he saw that this other rodent, which could not possibly have been trained, did not enter the booths with rum either.
“I didn't win a single bottle of rum with that curiel!” exclaimed the young man at the end of his video.
Raffles and raffles in Cuba are not widespread in popular festivals and celebrations, since the regime always persecuted and frowned upon thegambling and gambling among the population.
However, these ways of distributing prizes continue to be used by some in the country, as demonstrated by activists from theCuban civil society that, together with the artistYulier Rodríguez, they organizeda raffle of works of art whose proceeds were invested in disposable diapers for poor families in Havana.
Illegal gambling and betting in Cuba are some of the "vices" of Cuban society that, in theory, were stopped in 1959, the year in which the Cuban Revolution banned gambling.
However, images released by the independent mediaCubanet In 2016 they showed howA sector of Cuban society continues to trust its luck and future to games of chance..
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