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FROM
CUBA
Cuban
retiree fined for selling candy
HAVANA, Cuba, November 7 (www.cubanet.org)
- Authorities have twice fined a retiree
for selling candy in the beaches east of
Havana. The last time, they threatened him
with a prohibitive 1,500 peso fine for a
third offense.
Juan Antonio Guerra, of Boca de Jaruco,
a town outside of Havana, said he sells
the candy, which he makes at home, to supplement
his retirement income of 150 pesos a month,
or one-half his former salary.
Guerra, 62, said authorities fined him
40 and 70 pesos and confiscated all his
product, for not having a commercial license
and for not being able to document the purchases
of the raw materials he uses, primarily
the sugar, which is strictly rationed.
Guerra said after retirement he had taken
a job as a night watchman with a government
company, but he was subsequently fired because
the job was set aside for a person of working-age.
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