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FROM
CUBA
Cuban police, brass, raid self-employed
vendor's home
HAVANA, Cuba, November 22 (Reinaldo Cosano
Alén / www.cubanet.org) - It took
one lieutenant colonel, three majors, and
seven foot policemen, as well as one patrol
car and one military truck, to raid self-employed
street vendor's Nelson Franceva's home in
Camagüey.
The haul: ten bunches of plantains, one
sack of black beans, five sacks of avocados,
and 20 bottles containing lard.
The raid was one more in a series that
police have been carrying out the last few
weeks, ostensibly seeking to stamp out "illegalities
or economic irregularities.
Franceva expects authorities will also
levy a fine, or maybe even worse.Street
vendors like Franceva spring up to meet
a demand for produce government sources
can't or won't fulfill, but the government
has not issued licenses for such activities
in the last ten years, and calls their trade
illegal.
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