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HAVANA, march (Reinaldo Cosano Alen / www.cubanet.org) - Manati, a sugar
factory located in Las Tunas, one of the most oriental provinces of Cuba, is
staring to look like a "ghost town".
The time stop passing by - began to go backwards - when they order to detain
the machinery of the factoy forever. The economic and social life nearly died in
the community that surroundend the Central.
They start dismantled the machinery and the extensive railroad lines - 1,177
square kilometers - that connect the factory (now name Argelia Libre) with the
villages and the sugar canefields.
Like a dawn of terror, people observe every morning how, one by one, the
rails are pull out. The passengers train that ties Manati to the capital of the
Las Tunas province, is not running because of oil shortage and the trucks of the
sugar cane transportation have left the zone forever.
The government of Cuba is facing similar social situations in another 70
sugar factories that have been dismantled and have to cope with the sub or
complet unemployment of half a millon workers.
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