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PLACETAS, November 19 (María Elena Alpízar, Grupo Decoro /
www.cubanet.org) - Dissidents in Placetas, a town in central Cuba, say political
police are spreading rumors blaming them for a slew of petty problems in order
to turn the people against them and cover up their own corruption.
According to the rumors, human rights advocates and independent journalists
have denounced through foreign radio stations the Cubans who sell a little
coffee, a few cigarettes, some soap, or engage in any of the many petty but
illegal activities in which most Cubans feel they must engage to make ends meet
in the island’s crumbling economy.
Several prominent dissidents here have said residents have alerted them to
the rumors, calling them a maneuver on the part of the political police to cover
up recent scandals, such as the illegal sale of potatoes from the National
Refrigeration Company, and the clandestine manufacture of soft drinks in
unsanitary conditions and subsequent sale to the population.
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