Madrid / Holguín /The restructuring of the Chinese Fair has revolutionized all Holguin and there were few who had demanded on social networks a pronouncement of the authorities after it transcended that many merchants have been forced to dismantle their positions before February 16 under penalty of 30,000 pesos. This Sunday, through a Note published in the Official Gazette from the province, Nowmunicipal officials deny that the reason for these measures is to organize the celebrations of July 26, as some of the sellers argued.
“Information has been manipulated to discredit the actions that are carried out in order to ensure legality and transparency in trade, as well as urban balance,” says the author of the note, Reynaldo Zaldívar, who cites council of the administration.
According to this information, the disassembly is only planned for those who lack a license to exercise their own work or violate the rules. As for the rest, the National Institute of Territorial Planning and Urbanism has granted a license to build kiosks and in them the activity must be carried out. There are several affected areas and not only the Chinese, says Osmany Viñals García, leader of the Communist Party in the city, which explains how the stalls located in areas such as the street behind the terminal The Balearic Islands obstruct even traffic, preventing going out to the Guaguas
“Information has been manipulated to discredit the actions carried out in order to ensure legality and transparency in trade, as well as urban balance”
Viñals says, alleges Now that “the celebration of the annual activities of July 26 has been used as a manipulation mechanism, since at no time it has been mentioned that this is the reason for the measure.”
In the Chinese “you can hardly walk, because the sidewalks have been invaded by trucks and scaffolding,” argues Ramón Castro Anazco, viceintendent of agriculture. The official adds that the Cultural Plaza is occupied by the vendors, many of whom operate without permission and that, in addition, the commercial activity was authorized only for weekends, “not to not occupy one of the main arteries of the town every day”.
Castro Anazco said that a point of sale will be found for individuals, since they cannot, by regulation, are located less than 200 meters from the state agricultural market also called the Chinese, as is currently happening and without to date to date He has acted, reproaches the editor. The text also criticizes inspectors, who have allowed irregularities to proliferate, including the occupation of public roads.
In the note, entitled Eviction in the Chinese?there is room for concern, since, although it admits that the garbage, the discomforts that produces between the neighborhood the proclamation of products and streets full of obstacles are a serious problem, the fair supplies the population at prices more than adjusted .
“Many so many express their concern, because, despite all this, products are obtained at quite low prices compared to other sites in the city. One of the reasons is that, since there are so many sellers, competitiveness generates favorable prices for the people, ”acknowledges the text, in which also explanations of officials are required to workers, who do not know what will happen until that the new location is defined and lift the new positions.
“The matter demands better communication between the municipal authorities and the economic actors involved to avoid the proliferation of false news and the manipulation of the facts,”
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Reynaldo Zaldívar remembers that there are problems to meet food demand and that this type of fairs is essential, although this does not justify that unhealthiness or illegalities are allowed.
The text makes it clear that if it has been allowed, as is the case throughout the island and not only in Holguin, the proliferation of positions in which to obtain what is not in state markets is because officials know the consequences of having the population without them. The Cubans have become accustomed to the road without a license or street vendors to solve the day -to -day food and ask what will happen when in the eastern city they remain without their service.
It is the same reason that has led to the authorities, according to sources of 14ymedioto never inspect the surroundings of 13th Street, near the state market Dagoberto Sanfield. The large operations of inspectors and police have not affected that area at any time, where a more marginal sector of the population is concentrated that would not hesitate to respond violently by running out of the positions where they are supplied, the other way around than in the Chinese.
“They will affect several families who have been exercising that activity for years, wouldn’t it be better to legalize them? Why the suspension? This fact will bring consequences, ”warned a neighbor last Friday. “None consequences. The population is accustomed to obeying the supreme order, ”replied another. They were reactions to the statements of several journalists in a Telecristal program in which the action was not already reproached – not even clarified – of the authorities, but the focus on the initial complaint about the date.
“That they are not linking a historical date with something of that type. The historical date is respected. The one who used it for something of this type is very badly done. The first is the dialogue, ”asked one of them, applauded in social networks for his courage to claim not only for that detail, but because a solution is given to sellers without generating confusion and fear of those affected and the population itself.
It is not yet known where the merchants who have the required license will go, although the rumor in the city is that they will stay in the area known as a great panel
According to sources of 14ymediothe movement starts from First Secretary of the Communist Party in Holguín, The presidentialable Joel Queipo Ruíz, who tries to carve a reputation to become the successor of Miguel Díaz-Canel. The inspections and the “fence to the illegalities” have become increasingly intense since it came to office and remember those that the current president unleashed when he held the same position that Queipo between 2003 and 2009.
It is not yet known where the merchants who have the required license will go, although the rumor in the city is that they will stay in the area known as a large panel, about 300 meters from the current place and where materials from the materials of the construction.
The article of Now It aims to reassure the population while dismantling the argument of the date, unpopular among the ruling itself. Zaldivar says he had spoken with a merchant who snapped: “I trust that everything will be clarified and will be satisfactory, because the government will not act with injustice.” But uncertainty is even in the interrogations of the head of his ‘explanatory’ note.
