Security forces search dissident's home
HAVANA, November 27 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – Agents of the
Ministry of the Interior searched the home of dissident Graciela Concepción
Mayán Friday in Havana, seizing photographs, magazines and copies of the
Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Mayán, 37, a delegate of the January 6th Civic Movement, was
questioned for an hour and then released.
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State security disband dissidents before meeting
HAVANA, November 27 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – State Security
agents surrounded a farm where the heads of several dissident organizations were
to meet today and did not let the dissidents approach.
More than 20 agents and three patrol cars were deployed around the "Baraguá"
farm at about 9 a.m. today, in anticipation of the dissidents' meeting scheduled
for 2 p.m. As the dissidents approached, the operatives shooed them away. The "Baraguá"
farm is the headquarters of the November 30th Democratic Party.
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Dissidents march in protest in Pinar del Río
HAVANA, November 26 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – Seventeen
dissidents marched here in support of fellow-dissident Ramón Suárez
Díaz on November 23.
Suárez Díaz had appealed a one-and-a-half year sentence
imposed for "disobedience and resistance to authority." The appeal was
to have been heard at the Provincial Tribunal here, but government agents took
Suárez out through a back door and to the Municipal Tribunal, where
Provincial judges ratified his sentence.
To protest the government's manouver, the dissidents marched with Suárez's
relatives from the courthouse to his home. Later, the dissidents confronted a
hostile crowd of government counter-protesters upon leaving Suárez's
home.
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Primary school surrounded by overflowing sewers
HAVANA, November 22 (Rafael Pérez, AFPCP) – The "General
Emilio Núñez" primary school in old Havana is surrounded by
52 sewer drains which have been blocked-up for years and by six more that are
barely functional.
Whenever it rains, the area floods for hours, so that the students have to
wade through the water to get into and out of the school. The situation is made
worse by sporadic trash pick-ups, which cause trash to float away with the
flooding waters.
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Workers in ag co-ops haven't been paid in three months
HAVANA, November 27 (Ricardo González Alfonso) – The workers in
three agricultural cooperatives in Granma province, in eastern Cuba, haven't
been paid in three months because, say co-op directors, they owe the State
money.
The directors say the debt arises out of failures by the workers to fulfill
production plans.
One of the workers, after receiving his allotment of rationed food from his
assigned store, told employees to "Charge it to the government; they
haven't paid me in three months."
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Chemical mishap in "Suchel Camacho"
HAVANA, November 22 (Rev. Pedro Crespo, Grupo Decoro) – A chemical
accident in the early morning hours of November 18 at the "Suchel Camacho"
laboratories endangered personal safety at the lab.
The workers complained that the company does not guarantee them the means of
protection required by their activities.
The laboratory, located in the Cerro municipality of Havana, exhibits high
toxicity and environmental pollution indices. It releases toxic gases into
adjoining areas, where there are four hospitals, two of which are children's
hospitals.
Residents have conveyed to authorities their wish that the lab be moved to a
distant place where the risk of toxicity can be minimized.
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Policemen profit with confiscated items
HAVANA, November 23 (Regina del Sol) – Two policemen and their
commanding officer divert items they confiscate from travelers to their own
purposes.
The Interior Ministry officers, twin brothers whose last name is Rodríguez,
set up roadblocks on the outskirts of Santa Clara and confiscate foodstuffs and
tobacco from travelers going to Havana. They then take the merchandise home and
share it with an Interior Ministry captain known only as Eduardo.
Cuban government spokesmen constantly tout Interior Ministry officers as
role models for the people.
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