|
FROM
CUBA
Peasants forced to sell their cattle
HAVANA, Cuba, February 22 (Reinaldo Cosano
Alén, Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Santiago Rodríguez, of Banes municipality
in Holguín province, said the government
is trying to force him to sell his few head
of cattle because he doesn't own land in
which to keep them.
Rodríguez said the local head of
Tax Office inspectors, Grisel Díaz,
threatened to fine him 500 pesos and to
confiscate his six cows with their calves
unless he sold them to the government.
The problem, Rodríguez explained,
is that he doesn't own land and his cows
graze public lands. But, said Martha Diaz,
a local human rights activist, grazing one's
cows in public commons is a Cuban tradition
that goes back to colonial times.
Díaz said there are other peasants
in the municipality who face similar sell
orders for the same reason.
Versión
original en español
| 
