Government needed Special Troops to dissolve tobacco growers' protest

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Government needed Special Troops to dissolve tobacco growers' protest

By Hervin Salinas - Thursday, March 4, 2021

Society, Cuba

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At this time of Thursday afternoon, the Cuban independent press assures that the government of the island needed the Special Troops to dissolve a protest of tobacco growers that took place on the island.

It was precisely in San Antonio de los Baños, in the province of Artemisa, where this peaceful demonstration took place and was dispersed by the forces of the State.

Everything arose as a result of the non-payment of wages, hence those affected appeared before the municipal authorities, but after the events, "now they fear reprisals for exercising their right to free expression."

According to Martí Noticias , this Tuesday, “in the morning hours, workers from 5 cooperatives, one of them called Batalla de las Guásimas, belonging to the Lázaro Peña Tobacco Company, appeared before the government headquarters and municipal Party, located in front of the Central Park of San Antonio de los Baños, to demand the payment of their salaries by the state entity ”, informed the farmer Daniel Alfaro Frías.

“About 10 in the morning there was a group of tobacco workers, there were about 30 in total, they went to the government. They asked to speak to the mayor and they were told that he was not there. The same thing happened at the party's premises. They were very upset, claiming that they have not received their salary for five months. The company authorities tell them that there is no money to pay them, however, and all that tobacco that they harvested last season was sold, ”Alfaro told the newspaper.

As the management was not progressing, the workers decided to stay in the park protesting and stayed for about an hour, until military personnel arrived, says Alfaro.

“The Special Troops, the Red Berets, came and unloaded a whole truck of guards there and deactivated all that, dispersed them. And you know that this has consequences later ”, concluded the farmer.

After that, the tobacco growers learned that this Thursday they would receive a visit from Deputy Prime Minister Roberto Morales Ojeda.

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