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FROM
CUBA
Self-employed vendors evicted from agricultural
market in Cuba
HAVANA, June 28 (Reinaldo Cosano Alén
/ www.cubanet.org) - The manager of the
Taca agricultural market in Guanabacoa,
across the bay from Havana, evicted nine
self-employed green grocers, leaving area
residents with no place to buy their produce.
"Now we have to walk up to five miles,
because public transportation is horrible,
to buy at the old market, which is where
they have stuck the sellers from Taca,"
said Ada, a local housewife.
One of the merchants, Orlando Monet, said
he had been selling corn and ground coconut
out of the Taca market for five years, and
added: "No one understands the reason
for evicting us. I know people have sent
hundreds of signatures to the Communist
Party, and to the government, asking that
they let us back, and there has been no
reply."
The only stalls left open at the Taca market
are four government-run stalls. On Wednesday
last week, the only items available in the
whole market were: chick peas, at 12 pesos
a pound, rice, at 3.50 pesos a pound, and
small heads of garlic at 2.50 pesos.
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