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FROM
CUBA
Nurse
fired for signing Varela project petition
HAVANA, December 12 (www.cubanet.org)
- A nurse at the Carlos Finlay military
hospital in Havana was fired for signing
the Varela project petition, asking for
political change under provisions of the
Cuban Constitution.
Rosa María Esquivel, 34, had been
working at the hospital for 12 years. She
said she had been having problems with hospital
administrators, who had been pressuring
her to attend political manifestations and
to do volunteer work, both common features
of daily life in Cuba. She also said she
had been censured for not having paid union
dues or the assessment for the territorial
militia.
"Thursday they told me they had decided
to let me go, that they had sent the petition
to the Ministry of Public Health, but nonetheless
not to bother going back to work while they
waited for approval," said Esquivel,
who added that she would contest her firing
at every possible level.
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