A Cuban woman came to the defense of her nephew against a possible sanction from local inspectors and the police for selling avocado on a street in Santiago de Cuba.
"They do not let the youth live in peace," says the woman in a video shared by independent journalist Yosmany Mayeta Labrada on his Facebook profile.
"Those who commit robbery are not caught, those who are in the gang (of criminals) are not caught, so those who are sitting there, trying to make a living, because there is no life in this country," the woman said with an agitated voice to denounce the ineffectiveness of the police against serious crimes.
In the shared video, you can see how two inspectors, one of whom is trying to hide from the camera, along with two police officers, are filling out a ticket book.
The young man refused to sign the fine, and a motorist tried to calm him down because he became agitated by the action taken by the authorities.
This fact is part of the government’s crusade against private vendors, whom they accuse of raising prices, in a country where shortages and food insecurity grow every day, without the government placing a cap on the situation.
In Santa Clara, for example, inspectors boast about business closures and the collection of money through fines, when preventive work is not being done and the main focus is on addressing the already created and magnified problem due to poor government decisions.
Even fines know no limits and are imposed on people with physical or mental disabilities, as happened in Havana when two inspectors fined a disabled Cuban and father of four children 9,500 pesos for selling cigarettes at a bus stop.
Similarly, a police operation against vendors selling agricultural products in Havana ended with fines imposed on 42 of them.
According to the government of the capital, these individuals were violating what was established in their work projects.
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