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FROM
CUBA
Homemade motorized bicycle confiscated to
a pastor
HAVANA, June 1 (Moisés Leonardo
Rodríguez, Grupo Decoro / www.cubanet.org)
- Alfredo Caraballo, a pastor in a Pentecostal
church in Güines, south of Havana,
must make do as best he can with what he
has, just as everybody else here.
So when he decided to take his asthmatic
two-year-old daughter to El Rosario beach
on Sunday, he had to take her on a homemade
motorized bicycle he owns because there
is practically no other way to get to the
beach, except for the one daily bus, which
in any event one could take going in or
out, but not both ways. Not if one were
inclined to spend any time at the beach,
that is.
And that's how he came to be at El Rosario
on Sunday when police swept through in an
operative which might have been designed
for some other purpose, but in which nevertheless
they found his homemade motorized bicycle
and confiscated it as an unauthorized conveyance
devoid of papers that might make its operation
on public roads legal. Not that such homemade
vehicles are ever issued those papers; authorities
do not consider they meet minimum safety
requirements.
Caraballo says the bicycle is the only
means he had to take his daughter for treatment
when she has asthma attacks.
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