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HAVANA, July 17 (Omar Ruiz Hernández, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org)
- Residents of rural areas near the central Cuban city of Santa Clara refused to
pay their membership fees to the Committees for the Defense of the Revolution,
as a protest for the government's refusal to sell them eggs, baby food, and
canned fish under the food rationing plan.
The protesters, all residing in the vicinity of the Central Highway, between
Santa Clara and neighboring Santo Domingo, say the government's assertion that
residents of rural areas can become self-sufficient in foodstuffs is ridiculous
in the face of it.
How, they ask, are they going to produce canned fish or baby preserves?
Gisela, one of the residents involved in the protest, said she has not been
able to raise a single chicken, because everytime she tried, they would be
stolen.
Another resident, Juan, said he had had a cow stolen and had been fined 500
pesos for losing the animal. "No more raising animals for me," he
said.
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