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CUBA
Police
confiscate 20 piglets from rural residents
CABAIGUAN, Villa Clara, Cuba, August 25 (www.cubanet.org)
- Police confiscated 20 piglets belonging to four
men, charging that they had bought them illegally.
The four, José Luis Álvarez, William
Mederos, and Edel García, residents of
Cabaiguán, and Reinier Castellón,
a resident of Yaguajay, said they bought the piglets
for 8,287 pesos. They were transporting them home
in a tractor when the chief of police for the
Mayajigua sector arrested them.
The men said they were taken to the Yaguajay
police unit, where they were kept for more than
10 hours without food or drink before the unit
chief, a major Valdivia, told them yelling and
swearing that the pigs had been confiscated and
would be butchered the next day. Valdivia justified
the measure citing a resolution of the Mayajigua
Popular Council, prohibiting the sale and purchase
of pigs in the town to persons who live elsewhere.
All the towns mentioned in the story are small,
rural communities.
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