They seize 133 pounds of beef in the home of an illegal seller in Placetas

The police seized a total of133 pounds of beef in the home of an illegal seller in Placetas, Villa Clara, who was arrested, according to official sources.

The detainee's name is Maykel Vega - known in Placetas as "Maykel Zapatilla" - and he tried to throw the meat out of a window of his house when he realized that the police were breaking in, according to what he said.the People's Force Facebook profile, one of the multiple social media accounts associated with the Ministry of the Interior (MININT).

Previously, “community factors” had seen how the seller unloaded a sack of beef in broad daylight, the publication noted.

Vega's house was used to "receive" meat from "different acts of theft and slaughter of livestock in the municipality of Placetas," the source indicated.

Knives, a black briefcase with remains of meat inside and black rubber boots with blood samples were confiscated from the detainee, according to the information.

In the last week, it emerged that Cuban farmers are desperate in the face ofdizzying increase in cases of theft and slaughter of livestock in Cuba.

Denis Sixto Rodríguez, general director of the Corralito Farm, of the Camilo Cienfuegos Genetic Livestock Company, in Pinar del Río, said that the increase in slaughterers in rural areas leaves farmers unable to sleep a wink, awake watching the animals all day. time and at the expense of themselves becoming victims of thieves.

The farmers also complain about police work. They consider that it is almost non-existent in rural areas and assure thatIn each region everyone knows who the people are who are dedicated to theft and slaughter, where they move the cattle and the slaughter areas.. However, “to be able to catch them you have to prove it with evidence.”

That is why monitoring the livestock is the only option they have left, but “it is very complicated. It is not humanly possible to stay up all night and then leave at 4 or 5 in the morning to work.”

“Even the police themselves are dissatisfied with this situation. They spend the night awake in the mountains during the operations and yet the thieves end up loose shortly after,” said Rodríguez.

He warned that animal owners are very disappointed with this increase in violence. “If the laws don't change, or get stronger, we're lost,” he said.

Last year,More than 82 thousand cattle were illegally slaughtered by slaughterers in Cuba, according to official data.

Villa Clara was precisely the province where this crime occurred the most, with 12,243 illegal sacrifices.