CUBANET
HAVANA, Cuba, June 9 (Aleaga Pesant , www.cubanet.org) –Border guards
and national police carried out a roundup last Saturday of fishermen,
boaters and divers off the Malecón.
The operation started at 4 p.m. and involved the seizure of fish and the
sinking of rafts. Those arrested were taken to a police station, where
fines of up to 1,500 pesos, the equivalent of more than three monthly
salaries for the average Cuba, were meted out.
Two cigarette boats were used in the roundup.
Those who fled on foot were captured by police in patrol cars.
A source related the roundup to the coming ashore last week of rafters
on the coast near the U.S. Interests Section. That incident resulted in
police swarming the area.
Under Cuban law, fishermen need government permission to fish and to
build boats or rafts from which to fish.
Police carry out roundup off the Malecón - Cuba Dissidents -
MiamiHerald.com (9 June 2009)
http://www.miamiherald.com/1447/story/1090446.html
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