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Cuba is one of the few countries where the theft and recovery of a pig become official news.
In Guantánamo, the regime boasted on social media about a police operation to recover a 300-pound animal.
The official profile Guantánamo y su Verdad published a message on this Monday, celebrating what it described as a “swift police intervention” in the municipality of Niceto Pérez, which led to the recovery of a pig that had been stolen from a neighbor in the locality of El Silencio.
The publication, accompanied by triumphant slogans, reported that the animal was being transported in a truck to the municipal capital, and that the police organized a "closing operation" in the town of Granadillo to capture those involved.
According to the report, the thief had negotiated the sale of the animal for 150,000 Cuban pesos and was on parole after serving a previous sentence for theft.
The case, which would go unnoticed in any country, was presented by the regime's spokesperson as evidence of police effectiveness, in a context where serious crimes—such as violent thefts, assaults, and corruption—are rarely covered by the state media.
The state publication concluded with a propagandistic tone: “Caught and well caught!”, a phrase that could be interpreted as a reflection of the regime's media desperation to create police triumphs amid the economic and social chaos the country is experiencing.
This family was fortunate. In March, during the National Exercise for Prevention and Combating Crime, Corruption, Illegalities, and Social Indiscipline, the government of Pinar del Río showcased an unusual display of its police efficiency: a man had a pig stolen in the town of Alonso Rojas, municipality of Consolación del Sur, Pinar del Río, and the police returned a few pounds of meat in a plastic bag.
The case was shared with a triumphant tone by the official profile De Pinar Soy, which posted on Facebook the image of an agent handing the victim a bag containing some parts of the sacrificed animal.
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