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FROM
CUBA
Raid
aimed at private transport providers in central
Cuba
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, October 2 (www.cubanet.org)
- Police launched a series of raids aimed at private
transport providers this past Thursday that will
last until Sunday.
Since morning, transportation inspectors and
police have been checking credentials of all who
own and use cars, pedicabs, motorcycles and horse-drawn
carriages, in transporting passengers.
The city of Santa Clara has only two bus lines,
routes 2 and 3, which provide spotty service.
Private operators take up the slack, as evidenced
by long lines of people milling about the usual
stops for the private operators when they disappeared
by mid-afternoon as a result of the raids.
Later that evening, some of the operators were
telling they had been fined between 750 and 1,500
pesos for working without all the required licenses.
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