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HAVANA, September 3 (Víctor M. Domínguez, Lux Info Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Havana police raided and closed a clandestine furniture
factory in the Jesús María section of Old Havana, confiscating two
finished living-room sets, others in various stages of completion, and 150
meters of vinyl and five gallons of glue.
Each employee was fined 2,500 pesos and the owner of the building was fined
1,500 pesos. The fines were applied for violating Public Law 230, which condemns
speculation and hoarding, and Public Law 217, which applies to those living
illegally in Havana.
The owner and employees of the factory are all from the eastern provinces
who came to Havana more than five years ago looking for work.
The furniture they produced sold for 230 dollars, competing with similar
furniture sold by the government in the dollar-denominated stores at between 500
and 1,700 dollars.
Five murdered in Artemisa / UPECI
HAVANA, August 30 (Fara Armenteros, UPECI / www.cubanet.org) - Five people
were murdered in a farm in Artemisa, a town outside Havana.
Reports said a night watchman went to relieve Osmel Martínez at the
La Rosa farm and found him at his post with his throat cut. When he went to the
farm house to raise the alarm, he found its four occupants had been similarly
killed.
The victims were, in addition to Martínez, Félix Chacón,
the owner of the farm, his wife Onelia, their daughter Ubelice, and her husband
Jorge Félix Vineo. Police are investigating.
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