PINAR DEL RIO, February 11 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI /
www.cubanet.org) - A man lost his right leg after a guard shot him when he was
stealing oranges from a State farm outside the city of Pinar del Río.
Juan Pablo Torres, 38, and an unidentified 11-year-old boy were picking
oranges and putting them on a cart when the guard assigned to the grove
surprised them and ordered them to leave the oranges.
Torres dumped the oranges on the ground and meant to take the cart, which he
had brought with him, but the guard ordered him to leave it too. When Torres
refused, the guard shot him in the leg, which had to be amputated later.
Guards assigned to State farms are under standing orders to shoot intruders.
The guard who shot Torres has not been charged, according to reliable sources.
Oranges grown on these farms are destined for export or for the tourist
trade, and residents, who never see them in markets, resent the contradiction
inherent between the government's populist rhetoric and oranges they see but
never taste.
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