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FROM
CUBA
Farmer fined week's salary and peanut bars
seized
SANTA CLARA, Cuba, November 14 (Niurvys
Díaz Remond, Cubanacán Press
/ www.cubanet.org) - Farmer Guillermo Casabuena
Montesinos was fined 60 pesos - the equivalent
of an average workman's salary for a week
- for allegedly planning to illegally sell
56 peanut bars he intended to give as gifts
to friends and relatives.
Casabuena Montesinos was stopped by authorities
when he alighted from a bus, which had brought
him last week from the small town of Corralillo,
and his possessions were searched.
The authorities seized the peanuts bars
which he had prepared from a crop of peanuts
he had cultivated and fined him for selling
them without a license.
He protested that they were gifts for friends
and relatives he planned to visit in Santa
Clara.
"When I asked for s receipt for the
peanut bars, I was told that one was not
necessary, that they now had possession
of them," he said.
Casabuena Montesinos is a member of the
dissident Democratic Christian Movement.
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