Netflix’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ hits screen in Havana

Hundreds of fans gathered outside the Yara cinema in Cuba’s capital on Friday evening for a screening of the first TV adaptation of one of Latin America’s most beloved novels, a mammoth challenge taken on by streaming giant Netflix.

The first two chapters of “One Hundred Years of Solitude” – a 16-episode series in two parts – were presented at the Havana film festival on the Caribbean island nation where residents are blocked from accessing Netflix among other U.S. websites.