PINAR DEL RIO, July 16 (Víctor Rolando Arroyo, UPECI) - Managers at
the "Carlos Baliño" agricultural coop near Puerta de Golpe,
Pinar del Río province, have hired some 50 guards to safeguard the corn
crop from local residents who resent not being able to buy any corn because the
local crop is sold elsewhere.
Meantime, the crop from the coop is said to have been already sold to a
processing concern, and the coop's managers want to ensure that they harvest
enough to fill the order.
In spite of the guards, local residents pick corn at night to be able, they
say, to take some home to their families.
"What we have plenty of here is hunger," said Israel Morales
Arrastía, a local dissident. "I fear there will be confrontations
between the guards and the locals," he added.
The guards work under threat of losing their jobs if there are significant
loses to the crop.
"People complain that the government doesn't take them into account, or
their basic necessities. This is bad, very bad," said Morales.
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