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FROM
CUBA
Cuban police confiscate pedicabs; render
hundreds jobless
HAVANA, Cuba, November 5 (Richard Roselló
/ www.cubanet.org) - Havana police have
confiscated around 600 pedicabs in the last
month, forcing their operators and others
into the ranks of the unemployed.
Most of the confiscated pedicabs and their
operators lack the required licenses to
either work as self-employed operators,
or to operate a pedicab. Most of them complain
the government refuses to issue the licenses,
in spite of the need for transportation
the pedicabs meet.
The operators say they must engage in the
trade just to make ends meet.
"My salary as a mosquito control inspector
is not enough. At the end of the day, I
rent a pedicab from my neighbor for 30 pesos
and go out at night to maintain my three
sons," said a man who only gave his
name as Lázaro, and said he had gone
abroad three times to fight in Cuba's military
ventures of years past.
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