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May 14, 2002



FROM CUBA

Building still under construction after 15 years

CABAÑAS, May 10 (Moisés Rodríguez Valdés, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org) - A 30-unit apartment building destined for workers of the Augusto César Sandino sugar mill, in Mariel, Havana province, has been under construction since 1987 while its presumed beneficiaries live in what some here called subhuman conditions.

Local sources said materials from the upper stories of the building had been diverted to finish the store where so-called ‘incentives’ are sold to the workers. The incentives consist of personal hygiene products and some foodstuffs, normally in short supply, which are made available to workers who distinguish themselves in some productive capacity.

A generalized version among residents is that the building hasn’t been finished due to existing corruption among Communist Party and Popular Power officials.

"The problem is one of diverted resources and of indolence by area administrators," said one resident.


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