In the middle of a boatmen's strike In Havana, taxi driver Fernando Rafael Gonzalez Colet delivered a letter to the transportation department explaining the consequences for the sector of the price cap implemented by the government.
"Many private taxi drivers were offended, even those usurped by the rate imposed, taking into account the crisis facing the country when the same taxi drivers are the ones who informally, so to speak, have to ride the fuel or pay for it in the informal market up to 10 times its official value," he explains.
He adds that a boat driver must deal with cars from the 50s, remote-controlled, with body reinforcements to withstand the terrible road infrastructure, with changes to the brake system to make them safer, and all these transformations are done without the state selling a single piece at reasonable or affordable prices, he stressed.
A liter of engine oil costs 500 pesos, differential box oil 400 pesos, a liter of Castrol oil 4,500 pesos and a battery 31,000 pesos.
This reality makes the charging of the fare at 75 pesos unsustainable, as was imposed by the regime on June 9, explains González Colet.
The taxi driver delivered the letter to the Havana General Directorate of Transportation on June 12, and that day he met with the population care specialist, Comrade Moisés, who read the letter in front of him and refuted some points.
Among them the price of the cap. According to the official, there was a meeting with the taxi drivers to register it, and according to him they all agreed. "The rate survey was carried out, nothing was improvised and everything was collegiate at all levels until reaching the transporters and they accepted and they even went who suggested the price of this rate, the specialist assured me".
However, the young man affirms that no nearby boat owner was invited to said meeting and the official did not want to talk about the "issue of the price of parts and aggregates."
According to what he was told, the state has no solution for it but they are working with Mipymes and TCP.
Likewise, the boatman organized a collection of signatures from taxi drivers to present to the Transportation Directorate.
Since last June 9, Cuban boatmen residing in Havana went on strike. That day the decision came into force to cap the prices of private transportation, which experienced a considerable increase, in the midst of a fuel deficit that has lasted for months.
A few days ago, these private workers warned of their intention not to work, in protest against the imposition of prices that are unprofitable and that do not correspond to the situation in the country.
With the entry into force of the new rates for passenger transportation by the private sector, Havana authorities have taken to the streets to detect violators of Resolution 132, whom they punish with very high fines.
"With the transportation deficit here, the inspectors fined me 10,000 or 15,000 pesos... the price they want. Here in Cotorro, in Siboney," he denounced. a boatman from the capital in a social media direct.
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