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VALLE GRANDE PRISON, February 12 (Carlos Alberto Domínguez,
Cuba-Verdad / www.cubanet.org) - A 54-year-old civilian street sweeper, Rafael
Ramos, was sentenced to ten years in jail by a military tribunal for stealing a
30-pound turkey from a government farm in Havana.
The man may have got off light; the prosecutor, Captain Wilfredo Rodríguez
Águila, was asking for a 22-year sentence.
Whether or not the farm, located at 323 25th Avenue, in the La Lisa quarter
of Havana, is one that General of the Army and Minister of the Revolutionary
Armed Forces Raúl Castro calls home, as many here believe, is the sort of
information never officially acknowledged here. Ramos certainly thinks so.
The official sentencing document reads, in part: "the accused, Rafael
Ramos, on the 15th day of May of the year 2002, conceived the idea of breaking
into farm No. 2, belonging to the Directorate of Personal Security, at about
three o'clock in the morning, with the objective of appropriating some mangoes.
To that effect, he scaled the fence that protects the above-mentioned facility,
with a height of approximately six meters (18 feet)".
The document adds that Ramos "extracted a 30-pound turkey, valued at
forty-six pesos and sixty-four centavos".
Ramos, who worked as a sweeper for the "Aurora" government
company, was tried before the Territorial Military Tribunal for the Western
Provinces.
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