Talk:Materva

Trying to scrape together some sources

It is frustratingly very easy to find literature and other cultural resources (such as obituaries of Cuban-Americans) that use "they drink Materva" as a signifier of Cuban culture/participation in Cuban culture. I could easily cite all those, but it feels a little WP:NOR. In trying to find some better alternatives, here is a list - not sure how best to incorporate them at the moment but noting them here:

• Rabade Roque, Raquel. The Cuban Kitchen. p. 6. - cookbook, listing Materva as part of the standard "Cuban pantry" that anyone doing Cuban cooking should have on hand.
• Levine, Robert. Cuban Miami. p. 77. - describes Materva as a "famous Cuban brand", but notes it is not available on the island without explanation. (Castro shut down the factories after the revolution, according to another source I saw; I'll see if I can find that again.)
• Cubas, Mario Anthony. Performing Cubanidad. - apparently discusses importance of Materva in "performing cubanidad", but I can't seem to find a complete copy anywhere. Am emailing the author.

[Update: I've added the first two to to the article; still waiting for a copy of the third. -LuisVilla (talk) 20:45, 12 January 2014 (UTC)]

You need extensive discussion of the subject, not mentions of it. Walter Görlitz (talk) 22:28, 12 January 2014 (UTC)

Revolutionaries?

There is a paragraph that uses the term "revolutionaries" in relation to the word "strikes". First, the source doesn't support that the Civic Resistance Movement, who organized the strikes, were revolutionaries. Second, there were revolutionaries on the ant-Communist side, specifically the Student Revolutionary Directorate, so we don't have any idea which side organized these strikes by using that term. Finally, it's against WP:NPOV and it pushes an anti-communist PoV, which isn't at all acceptable. I propose the following wording:

During the Cuban Revolution, the Materva bottling plant was targeted by the Civic Resistance Movement for strikes, along with the Coca-Cola and Pepsi bottling plants.

Unfortunately, there is no article for Civic Resistance Movement and linking to Manuel Ray Rivero doesn't make sense here. It also isn't the CIA-supported Cuban Revolutionary Council or Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, with which the term may be confused. If there are no objections, I will add the wording within a few days. Walter Görlitz (talk) 13:51, 14 April 2014 (UTC)

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