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HAVANA, March 11 (Anna Rosa Veitía, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) -
A police raid dispersed several street vendors outside the Computing School in
central Havana March 10.
The peddlers, mostly women who are otherwise unemployed, sell guava and
coconut pastries at two pesos each, French fries at five pesos the bag, or a
confection similar to a doughnut at one peso each.
At 3:00 p.m., the time students have their break and come out of the school
to find something to eat, three police cars surrounded the school and disgorged
police with riot sticks who started chasing the peddlers.
The vendors, for the most part, threw their wares away in trash cans. One of
them, Noemí Cárdenas, explained that during raids like these,
police fine them 1,500 pesos and divide the pastries among themselves, so the
peddlers prefer to ditch them and walk away.
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