HAVANA, July 25 (Regina del Sol) - A woman was arrested in Holguín, eastern Cuba, and her three small children were left homeless after they were evicted from the house where they were squatting.
The woman, Margot Ávila Díaz, took over the house at 234 Prado Street in 1999 when the house in which she had been living collapsed and she couldn't get the authorities to assign her to another one. The house has presumably been assigned to an Interior Ministry official and the
authorities evicted Ávila.
She took her children, ages 4, 6, and 9, and protested the action at the city's Calixto García park. A current government slogan claims that no Cuban child lacks a roof over his head. Ávila exhibited a sign pointing out that she and her children do not have a house.
Several officers of the National Police took her and the children into custody. Ávila remains under arrest and the children have been placed in a home for waifs.
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