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CUBA
Farmers fined, their produce confiscated,
for trying to market it
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba - May 17 (Abel Escobar
Ramírez / www.cubanet.org) - Authorities
in the municipality of Banes, Holguín
province, imposed fines on at least three
farmers and confiscated their produce for
trying to sell it on their own, outside
the government's procurement mechanism.
Guillermo Llanos Ricardo, a human rights
activist in the province, said authorities
fined farmer Mario Vicente 1,000 pesos and
confiscated 50 hundredweight of bananas
that he was trying to sell. In like manner,
they fined farmer Ariel Pérez 500
pesos and confiscated 80 hundredweight of
unspecified produce, and imposed a fine
of 500 pesos on Raymí Calzadilla,
from whom they confiscated 20 hundredweight
of bananas found at his home.
The sector chief of police said Calzadilla
intended to market the bananas.
Farmers prefer to sell their produce outside
the government's procurement scheme, especially
since the National Bank of Cuba about a
year ago withdrew the authorization for
immediate payments from the local procurement
"points of purchase" and they
have to wait several months to be paid.
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