PINAR DEL RIO, February 28 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) - Several
dissidents in Pinar del Río, Cuba’s westernmost province, are
accusing State Security agents of putting pressure on them by getting them fired
from their jobs and by subsequently threatening to apply Cuba’s laws on
vagrancy to them.
• A Department of State Security captain, who identifies himself as
Elizardo, and another officer, who identifies himself as Alexander, showed up at
the agricultural coop where dissidents Yosvany Fernández Morejón
and Germán Jiménez Llera work. The agents told Fernández
and Jiménez to leave their jobs or they would be fired, according to
Dervis Moreno, of the Ex Club Cautivo.
• The same two officers met with dissident Nivaldo Díaz
Castellanos, a bakery employee, and threatened to have him fired from his job.
When Díaz went back to work, he was told that his contract had
terminated, since it was temporary.
• Yosbel Subí, a plumber’s assistant, also says that State
Security agents have threatened him with loss of his job and with jail as a
vagrant.
The Cuban penal code provides for jail sentences for something called "social
dangerousness," one of whose defining characteristics is being unemployed.
The label and concomitant jail sentences are applied selectively.
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