March 27, 2000


FROM CUBA

Campaign Against Self-Employed in Havana

HAVANA, March 22 (Sonia González, APLC) - State inspectors and police last week imposed fines ranging up to 1,500 pesos and confiscated the goods of more than a hundred self-employed merchants in Havana.

The merchants were expelled from their usual places in the principal streets of the city. Among the affected were several blind and otherwise handicapped persons.

The sweep operation was carried out by police in patrol cars and buses, in which those who resisted were taken away.



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