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FROM
CUBA
Police target street vendors
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, April 8 (Diolexys Rodríguez
Hurtado, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Officers of the National Revolutionary
Police and inspectors of the department
of Prices and Finance raided several street
vendors in Santa Clara April 4, confiscating
their wares and imposing fines on them.
Four inspectors backed up by police alighted
from a bus at the intersection of San Miguel
and Toscano Streets and started rounding
up vendors, confiscating fish, potatoes,
plantains, and tomatoes, among other produce.
The fines they imposed oscillated between
100 and 1000 pesos.
The number of Santa Clara residents who
operate in the underground economy to make
ends meet is probably impossible to ascertain,
but the government considers their activities
illegal. Many of their customers decry the
raids, saying the vendors are often their
only source of otherwise unobtainable foodstuffs.
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