CUBA NEWS
March 18, 2003

FROM CUBA
Cuban dissident union delegate injured by hit-and-run motorcyclist

HAVANA, March 16 (María López, Lux Info Press / www.cubanet.org) - Dissident union member Félix Rodríguez was injured Monday when hit by a motorcycle that fled the scene in Pinar del Río.

Rodríguez, provincial delegate of the National Independent Worker Confederation, was taken to a nearby hospital where a cut on his left arm required 10 stitches.

Rodríguez had been giving a workshop on unionization. He later filed a complaint with police about the accident.

The union delegate has been threatened with a jail sentence if he continues his union activities.


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