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FROM
CUBA
More than 200,000 "social workers" seek
to stamp out corruption
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - January 17 (Rafael
Ferro Salas, Abdala Press / www.cubanet.org)
- By deploying more than 200,000 young people
to audit and monitor the operation of government-run
establishments that encompass the whole
gamut of economic activity in the island,
the Cuban government seeks to curtail a
wave of rampant corruption that has become
widespread.
The measure was heralded by Fidel Castro
himself, in a recent speech in which he
denounced the scope of the corruption, which
ranges from top administrators to warehouse
workers and store employees who have access
to merchandise that can be pilfered for
use or resale.
The young auditors, who are called social
workers, are typically sent to work in provinces
far from home, presumably to prevent cronyism.
In one of the most visible results of the
campaign, police in Pinar del Río
recently launched a series of raids targeting
private vendors who operate in parks and
streets and out of their homes, selling
the goods, primarily foodstuffs, that are
pilfered out of government stores and warehouses.
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