On the island of scarcity food is like gold
In the bust, more than 60 tons of food was recovered, including soy flour, white sugar, rice and black beans. The crime can bring sentences of 8 to 20 years in prison.
HAVANA TIMES – Cuban authorities have detained a total of 78 people at the Guillermón Moncada port, in Santiago de Cuba, involved in a network of food theft of products intended for the basic rations. Of them, 59 are in provisional prison while precautionary measures have been imposed on the remaining 19.
In the operation, the Police were able to recover a total of more than 60 tons of food, including 33 tons of soy flour, 22.6 of white sugar, 3.8 of rice and two of black beans, as reported this Monday by the government’s Canal Caribe. In a brief report in which agents from the Ministry of the Interior, a prosecutor. and the vice-governor of the province, Waldis González Peinado, participated, the authorities repeated the exercise of divulging – increasingly frequent – the “zero tolerance” that they maintain with the “theft of essential products.”
The Police affirm that the number of people who participate in the successive tasks of unloading, weighing and transportation in the port makes everything work like a fine-tuned clock, and that for any movement it is necessary to involve a majority of employees. “For the commission of acts of this nature, it is