CAMAGÜEY, February 11 (Yoel Blanco, CPIC / www.cubanet.org) - No one
has been willing to accept the presidency of the Committee for the Defense of
the Revolution (CDR) No. 1 in Florida, Camagüey province, since 1992, and
reportedly there are other CDRs in the same situation.
"Last week there was a meeting to elect a president, but no one would
accept the position, which has been vacant since 1992," said one area
resident.
After the chosen declined the position, the resident reported, they would
mutter softly a variation of "Let someone else handle that hot potato."
"That's not the only CDR without a president; there are others in
Florida in the same situation," said Lázaro Iglesias, a member of
the Cuban Human Rights Foundation in Florida. "You never find that reported
in the official press," he added.
The CDRs are neighborhood watch committees established by the Castro
government in 1960. Since then, they have become pervasive as the government's
organizational arm at the grass roots level. Membership in the local CDR is even
taken into account when considering applicants of a job.
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