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"CON LA MISMA MONEDA" VICTORY: ACTIVISTS ACHIEVE ACCEPTANCE OF PAYMENT
IN CUBAN PESOS AT STATE CORPORATION
Holguín, Cuba, may 14th, 2009. The promoters of the "Con la Misma
Moneda" (With the Same
Currency) campaign achieved a major victory in the city of San Germán,
Holguín province, by
forcing the acceptance of the national currency (Cuban pesos) as payment
in an establishment
run by the Cuban government's Cubalse Corporation. Prior to this, the
store only accepted Cuban
convertible pesos (CUC) as a form of payment.
The news was sent from San Germán by Lourdes Yen Rodríguez, Executive
Director of the
Federation of Latin American Rural Women (FLAMUR in Spanish). Mrs. Yen
Rodríguez stated
that the evens began on May 12th, when activists from FLAMUR and the
Cuban Republican
Party went to a place operated by the Cubalse Corporation Store Chain,
located on 14th street
between 25th and 27th streets, in San Germán and bought personal health
items. The activists
presented Cuban pesos as payment, refusing to comply with the arbitrary
government regulations
that deny Cubans the right to pay with the same currency in which they
receive their salaries.
The group of activists included Maribel Pena Jike; Andrés Matamoros
González; Santa Sánchez
Romero; Juan Emilio Soto Peralta; Bernardo Pérez Calderón; Ester Milanés
Riva; Lourdes Yen
Rodríguez herself and her husband Yosvany Anzardo Hernandez. Confronted
by the activist's
refusal to pay in CUC, the store manager was forced to accept the
payment in Cuban pesos.
Following their example, numerous customers ran to the store to pay in
Cuban pesos.
"The payment in national currency is now accepted without reservation.
The store sells its
products in CUC, but a lot of customers have adopted the attitude of
paying in national currency,
so the management of the corporation has authorized their employees to
accept the national
currency. It's a step forward, thanks to the victory obtained by the
activists who carried out this
sequence of civil disobedience actions", expressed Lourdes Yen. "This
victory is a landmark for
the opposition on the Island, imposing the will of the people on the
regime. We will not stop
until we make the fruit of our labor worthy of being used at any
establishment in this country.
Con la Misma Moneda (With the Same Currency), it is our right".
"This shows the power of nonviolent struggle, when people organize
themselves with an
strategic vision", added Magdelivia Hidalgo, FLAMUR's International
Representative.
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