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CAMAGÜEY, May 14 (Normando Hernández, CPIC / www.cubanet.org) -
Several farmers who used to sell their produce at the farmers’ market in
the town of Colombia, Las Tunas province, quit selling there after having
problems with a government official named Cleto.
"The strike started May 3 due to excessive bureaucratic controls and
negligible benefits," said local activist Orestes Giniebra.
One of the former vendors said "The matter of quitting the market
constitutes an act of rebellion against the government of Fidel Castro, which
imposes on us a tax of 15 percent of sales, and on top of that charges us 10
pesos for a stall and one peso for each product we advertise on the board."
Giniebra said the government’s commerce authority has tried to bridge
the differences between officials and farmers because their absence from the
market has seriously compromised the town’s supply of food.
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