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December 26, 2002



FROM CUBA

Varela Project supporter loses land

SAGUA DE TANAMO, Cuba, Dec. 27 (Juan Carlos Garcell, APLO / www.cubanet.org) –According to Luis Herrera Cortina, a backer of the Varela Project in Sagua de Tanamo in Holguin province, agricultural inspectors recently seized the land he says he has farmed legally for nearly 10 years.

The inspectors visited Herrera December 9 and threatened him with a 500 pesos fine, more than twice monthly average salary in Cuba. When he protested, he was cited to appear December 16 before the National Organization of Agricultural Inspectors in Sagua de Tanamo, where the seizure was ratified.

"The small piece of land used to be a lagoon alongside the highway," he said. "At the beginning of the Special Period, because of hunger and lack of employment my wife and I made it productive, based on the words of Fidel Castro that the land belonged to those who worked it."

Herrera said he considered the seizure to be a reprisal for his support of the Varela Project which calls for the National Assembly to hold a referendum.


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