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Cuban families evicted from make-shift housing
CIENFUEGOS, Cuba, March 3 (Alejandro Tur
Valladares, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org)
- About 250 strong, police and housing inspectors
charged into "El Fanguito" marginal
housing area in Cienfuegos February 22,
evicting settlers and demolishing their
jerry-built houses.
The raid was part of a crackdown by the
government on a growing trend by people
who simply have nowhere else to live and
build shelter with found materials in outlying
areas. Eventually whole communities grow
out of these settlements.
Many of the structures are built of materials
such as sheets of zinc, concrete blocks,
palm tree planks, tires of other rubber
refuse, since proper construction materials
are usually only available in the black
market or in the hard currency sector of
the economy, at steep prices.
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