SANCTI SPÍRITUS, January 18 (Tomás Torres, Cuba Press) - Local authorities confiscated 30 draft horses in this city in central Cuba, leaving the owners to pull their carriages home by themselves. They then sold the horses, in some cases, back to their original owners.

Police typically stopped coachmen in the street, confiscating the horse on the spot if they found irregularities with their papers. The owners then had to pull their carriages off the street themselves. Many chose to ransom their horses at the 940 peso going price, obviously treating the amount as a fine.

In the so-called 'special period in time of peace' which coincides with the nineties, horses have become common means of transport in Cuba, as they were at the beginning of the century.

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