Blas Roca Calederio, born on July 22 in 1908, was a Cuban communist revolutionary and radical journalist. Roca helped lead the 1933 general strike that ousted Gerardo Machado, and served in Fidel Castro's revolutionary government.
Born into a poor family, Roca began working at age eleven, shining shoes. According to Castro, Roca was already a prominent communist organizer in the province of Oriente at 21 years old.
At age 25, Roca helped lead a two week general strike that ousted dictator Gerardo Machado. By 1936, he was head of the Cuban Communist Party and began serving as a politican, helping author the 1940 Cuban Constitution.
Under Roca's leadership, Cuban communists were instrumental in providing an organizational and ideological structure for Castro's revolution, as well as playing a pivotal role using the party's long-standing ties with the Soviet Union to promote increasingly closer ties during the early days of the revolution.
In 1961, Blas Roca, leading a party delegation, presented a Cuban flag to Nikita Khrushchev during a meeting of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Roca served on the first central committee and politburo of the new Communist Party of Cuba, founded in 1965.
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Woah what is that like? Is it spicy and pepper flavor or just one of those? I had some local brewery's mexican style lager with a jalapeño slice in it the other day and despised it but i have a strong hunch it was the beer itself and not the innocent 'peño.
It’s amazing, I’ve legit controlled my drinking more because I want to maintain the bottle.
I would describe it as a smooth flavorless vodka with a heavy grassy aftertaste. The initial feeling of the shot is of a light pepper taste with a grassy aftertaste that really accentuates the jalapeño in the pepper mix. Tragic, but the heat level is only hot for midwesterns. The heat is noticeable, but the same way a person who likes the cold is able to notice the approaching fall. It’s not satisfying per se, but the shift is palpable.
Like, it’s genuinely just grassy pepper flavor, vodka flavor (by its nature notable by absence) and the inherent quality of alcohol flavor.
It would be 10/10 in a Bloody Mary. I would say that taken straight it’s a pure improvement over raw vodka if you have any degree of spice tolerance and are not adverse to the second to bottom shelf.