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FROM
CUBA
Trio fined equivalent of six months' salary
for trying to escape Cuba
HAVANA, July 6 (Roberto Santana Rodríguez/www.cubanet.org)
- A Naval judge has fined three men 3,000
pesos - the equivalent of 15 months' salary
- for trying to leave the island in a 15-foot
motorboat they found.
One of the men, Maikel Pérez Castañeda,
said he found the boat abandoned in some
reeds. He and Harold Michel Torres Soto
and Norberto Chacón legally bought
a battery and 60 liters of gas for the trip.
But they were arrested in the port of Mariel
in April before they could put to sea.
Captain Jorge Luis Navarro Nolasco signed
the resolution ordering the fine. The trio
said the fine was too high and that the
battery and gas were missing from the inventory
of what was seized by the authorities.
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