CAMAGÜEY, June 1 (Pablo Pacheco Avila, CPIC) - Fifty unemployed
residents of the city of Camagüey were told by police recently that they
could be considered potentially dangerous and jailed.
The fifty were called into police station No. 3 in the city and given
official warnings of their status as unemployed. The sessions were videotaped as
evidence that the warnings were delivered. In past months the subjects were
required to sign that the warnings had been delivered, but many resisted and
left without signing.
The unemployed in Cuba are routinely watched as potentially destabilizing
elements. The law provides that an unemployed person can be declared "dangerous
to society" and sent to jail for up to six years. In practice, the law is
applied selectively to take out of circulation people whom the government
considers troublesome. Directly or indirectly, the government is the sole
employer in Cuba.
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