The official newspaper Escambray reveals the information in an article dedicated to the “intolerance” of the Communist Party for these cases
14ymedio, Madrid, May 27, 2024 — Alexis Fuentes de La Cruz, director of the Sancti Spíritus Municipal Commerce Company between May 2022 and July 2023, has been sentenced to eight years in prison for a corruption case. The news slips between the paragraphs of a text published this Monday by the official newspaper of the province, Escambray, entitled Double Discourse or the Yagruma Syndrome*. It vindicates the regime’s intolerance with this type of case – proclaimed by Miguel Díaz-Canel at the beginning of this year – whose greatest example is, they cite, the cause of the former minister of the former vice prime minister and former head of Economy and Planning, Alejandro Gil Fernández.
“There are those who—due to their double talk—suffer from what could be called ‘yagruma syndrome’, named for a plant whose leaves look two faces: dark green, on one side, and white, on the other. Incidentally, some of these pretenders have found themselves neck-deep in the mire of corruption.”
The MSME (Micro, Small, Medium-sized Enterprise) involved sold 42,000 units of a Pool brand soft drink to the group with a close expiration date. A specialist in Legal Advice and Assistance prepared a report warning of anomalies that had to be examined by the contracting and purchasing committee before carrying out the transaction, but Fuentes de La Cruz got rid of the document to avoid the loss of the 3,241,860 pesos that it would cost the company to stop sellin