September 23, 2004
Cuba - Socialist Paradise
SANTA CLARA, September 20 (Belkis Rodríguez Bravo, Cubanacán Press / www.cubanet.org) - Two police officers fined a 76-year-old man 150 pesos for selling fruit in front of his home in Santa Clara.Rey Ramiro Montes de Oca, who said he sells the fruit to make a little income for himself and his wife, had, at the time police came, a few guavas, two avocados and two pumpkins.
Police confiscated the lot.
Posted by Val Prieto at September 23, 2004 06:05 AM
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Carmen,(a Nicarauguan friend), Told me about living under the Sandinistas. Her family worked and saved their money for a year. They pooled it to buy a large sack of rice, (as each person was alotted 1/2 a kilo a week), to divide between the family members for Christmas. Once they purchased the rice they were reported to the police,(by the person who sold them the rice), and when the police came to confiscate the rice her father poured a bottle of motor oil into the rice saying, "We don't eat the rice, no one eats the rice."
Posted by: Bill at September 23, 2004 10:52 AM
