MADRID, Spain.- An operation organized by the Ministry of the Interior (MININT) arrested more than 30 people on Thursday who were reselling essential products at the “Fair of 100 and Boyeros” in Havana.
As published “The Page of Mauro Torres”a State Security profile on Facebook, these people resold egg cartons for 2,000 thousand pesos, chicken packages for 500 pesos, among others.
“Witnesses to the event report that the police and the DTI arrived very early, and from one moment to another, they began to take away all the resellers who are always in the area,” reads the publication.
Just as it indicates that the operation reached a house near the fair, where they seized a freezer “loaded with packages of chicken and mincemeat.”
According to State Security, “this type of operation that takes place in Cuba enjoys popular support because it involves people who profit from the needs of others, and in circumstances like these, it is even harder, since they try to get more than ten times the value of what a product costs.
“Resellers are abusers, but who is to blame for this happening? Where do the products in that magnitude come from? Are they really resellers? Now they put the full weight of the law and continue to pay the just for sinners, “he said. Elizabeth Mendoza.
While Lazaro L Camaraza Rodrigues He questioned: Why don’t they carry out the operation with the bosses from where they get those products that are the TRD, CIMEX and we all know who they belong to”.
“Just put the products in the butcher shops and warehouses in whatever cycle it is and the existing corruption in those places and in the egg mix will end,” he added.
The Cuban regime, unable to solve the economic crisis, has in recent years blamed resellers for the shortage from the country.
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