The Cuban director and writer,Lilo Vilaplana, posted on Facebook a photo where you can see an official from the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) in Cuba, waiting to collect a shipment from the leading company in global payment services, Western Union.
“Look at this uniformed Castro woman in line to collect remittances at Western Union from an exiled family member or friend. “This is shameless!” wrote Vilaplana.
“She is as immoral as the one who sends her money, let's stop blaming those who are in Cuba,” commented user Rafael Mily Pérez.
“Everything that comes out of here helps those henchmen in one way or another, I think Western Union's game is over,” Belkys Nogales-Grana commented on the social network.
Western Union in Cuba
Western Union is one of the companies suedunder the protection of the Helms-Burton Act, by having an agreement with FINCIMEX for the processing of remittances to the island, since the latter's links with the Gaesa group of military companies are known.
In accordance with a policy of strengthening the embargo against the island, the United States officially put into force on Wednesday a group of measures torestrict remittance shipments To Cuba.
Thus, a limit of $1,000 dollars per quarter was imposed on the shipments that each sender can make to a Cuban citizen and remittances were prohibited from going to close relatives who were senior officials of the Government or the Communist Party, extending the limitations to children, parents, grandparents and cousins.
The State Department declared that the policy promoted by Donald Trump's administration seeks to empower the private sector and independent demonstrations, so as to help them operate without government control.
On the other hand, the service of Western Union offices is characterized by apoor compliance, which hinders the collection of remittances for many Cubans, and creates long lines in different establishments that provide these benefits.
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