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HAVANA, June 18 (www.cubanet.org) - Yaquelín Rodríguez was
fired from her job at a dollar store after she refused pressure from a
Department of State Security operative to help change her father's mind.
Rodríguez the father, truth be told, is a dissident, and in an
attempt to correct that problem, a State Security agent who only identified
himself as Ramón showed up at Yaquelín's home and told her to talk
some sense into him, help persuade him of the error of his ways.
Yaquelín says she told the man she respects everyone's ideas. "More
so, my father's, and I'm not going to question his way of thinking."
The La Moderna store, in which Yaquelín used to work, in Pinar del Río,
belongs to a chain called TRD Caribe. More specifically, TRD stands for "hard-currency
earning stores." Also more specifically, the chain belongs to the Ministry
of the Revolutionary Armed Forces.
In due course, the store manager informed Yaquelín that store
employees may not hold ideas contrary to the government, and that she had
assumed a counter-revolutionary position by not accepting Security's orders, and
thus was "not trustworthy." That, in Cuba, is good and sufficient
grounds for dismissal.
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