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New arrests grinch Cubans' Christmas preparations
PINAR DEL RÍO, Cuba, December 14
(Rafael Ferro Salas, Abdala Press / www.cubanet.org)
- Police in Pinar del Río arrested
a number of independent produce vendors,
complicating consumers' provisioning options
for the upcoming Christmas celebrations.
The most-often confiscated product in this
wave of arrests was pork, the staple in
the Cuban Christmas table. Fruits and vegetables
were also part of the crop harvested when
police made a sweep of private citizens
trying to sell in the streets.
For the most part, the vendors were marketing
produce they had grown themselves to profit
from the government's inability to supply
foodstuffs at an affordable price.
Most of those arrested were fined and released,
minus their goods and profits, which were
confiscated.
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