Rustlers butcher cow stolen from farmer
Rafael Ferro Salas, Abdala Press.
PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba - January (www.cubanet.org) - When police arrived at
8:00 a.m. a group of people was looking at the cow's carcass left by the
side of the road.
"They butchered it alive. That's inhumane," said one bystander.
Police took pictures and studied the terrain looking for evidence. The
thieves had gone into the farmer's field during the night, took the cow
and butchered it by the side of the road. They had taken the rear quarters.
The man was sitting by the side of the road, smoking and gazing in the
distance. When I sat by him, he started talking, as if he had been
expecting me.
"That was the only cow I had left. I was feeding the milk to my
grandson. It's a shame what they did. You don't do that, not even to an
animal," he said.
"Well," I tried to commiserate. "Maybe the police will find the thieves..."
The farmer didn't let me finished. He got up, and as he walked away
said: "The police are themselves in cahoots with the thieves all over
this area. I'm never going to trust them. In my 76 years I had never
seen so much corruption as we have now. You can't tell the bad guys from
the police."
He peered at the group of onlookers milling around the cow and walked
away, as if from that moment on he'd have nothing to do with what had
happened the night before.
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