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CUBA
Great-great-grandparents' home seized from
dissident
HAVANA, December 13 (Juan
Carlos Linares Balmaseda / www.cubanet.org)
- A rustic one-room house with outdoor plumbing
that belonged to the great-great-grandparents
of dissident Alejandro Miguel Novoa Saldívar
has been seized from him because of his
political views.
Although Novoa, 35, had legal title to
the house, he did not live there. Instead,
he loaned it to Grisell de la Caridad Ruiz
and her husband, both dissidents. They have
a small child.
Novoa lived in the Alamar district in his
mother-in-law's three-room apartment which
he shared with her, his wife, son, brother-in-law
and his wife, as well as an ailing sister-in-law.
On November 15, the housing director in
Regla, Susana Pérez Ferrol issued
an order seizing Nova's house. "It
has been proved that in the residence occupied
by Grisell de la Caridad Ruiz and other
members of the nuclear family a negative
political behavior is maintained, therefore,
socially reproachable," said the order.
It said that Novoa was a member of an "anti-revolutionary
group" and that he had carried on "traitorous
activities" in the house.
Novoa, a member of the opposition Democratic
Solidarity party, was detained November
28 and held on suspicion of robbery. While
he was being held, police broke down the
door of the one-room house, removed all
personal effects and turned the building
over to another couple.
Novoa has since been fired from his job
as a night watchman.
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