Handicapped street peddler fined, threatened
CIEGO DE AVILA, Cuba - January 29 (Luis Esteban Espinosa /
www.cubanet.org) - A police captain known locally only as Claudio
imposed a fine of 400 pesos -almost two months' salary- on a wheel-chair
bound handicapped street peddler.
Maikel Marrero said police confiscated all his merchandise, consisting
of knick-knacks which he sells for a living in the town of Buenaventura,
Holguín province. Street peddlers such as these are illegal in Cuba.
Marrero also said the captain threatened to impose a fine of 1000 pesos
if he continued selling from his wheel chair.
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