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FROM
CUBA
Hundreds out of jobs at dollar stores in
Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, August 2 (Manuel A. Brito
/ www.cubanet.org) - Hundreds of workers
have been laid off by the Caribe chain of
dollar stores, said Jorge Eulalio Santana,
a former doorman who lost his job.
The Caribe stores are owned and operated
directly by the Cuban armed forces as a
hard currency cow.
The scuttlebutt among store employees was
that armed forces Minister Raúl Castro
himself had decreed that all workers who
did not have at least a 12th grade education
should be let go. Others, however, pointed
out that most of those affected by the layoffs
were older workers and said they are being
replaced by younger workers recently cashiered
out of the armed forces and the Ministry
of the Interior.
Santana commented: "For eight years
I was a doorman at the Miami store; I served
in the armed forces abroad, and I did well
in my job. Now they come up with this. I
didn't know you needed so much education
to be a doorman."
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