Havana/The drug continues to havoc in Cuba. Despite the official discourse that presumes control and “hard hand”, the reality that many communities live is alarming: increase in consumption, distribution networks that operate more and more sophistication and a government response centered more on punishment than in the prevention. The recent operational operations in the province of Granma – with seizures of marijuana, chemical drugs and even white weapons – reveal a social deterioration that the regime prefers to minimize with propaganda, ensuring that “the fight against crime is”. ”
This Saturday, The demand He informed about an operation in Bayamo in which officers of the Ministry of Interior (Minint), with the help of the canine technique, seized drugs in a house in the cast of Ciro Redondo and arrested a citizen for possession of marijuana.
There was also a cultivation case in Pilón, where the police requisitioned “multiple narcotic plants.” In Manzanillo, on the other hand, the Minint found marijuana wrappers in a home in the cast of Caymari, “along with a considerable amount of cash, allegedly the result of traffic activities.”
The list of The demanddetermined to demonstrate that the “confrontation to the crime” is effective, follows: two citizens who transported chemical drugs from Manzanillo to Bayamo were arrested – they not clarify what narcotic they were carrying, but they point out that they are “extremely dangerous substances – and in the head city they were also discovered Panels of chemical and marijuana in a house.
The newspaper also includes crimes not associated with drugs, such as detention, with the hands in the dough, of a thief in an agricultural market
The newspaper also includes crimes not associated with drugs, such as detention, with the hands in the dough, of a thief in the agricultural market Luis Ramírez López, or the confiscation of 1,000 “illegal tobacco” to a person who “intended to market them at high prices”. Finally, in Manzanillo the Police “surprised four malefactors when they had just sacrifice a bull that belonged to a peasant in the area of Cayo Espino, and arrested a scourge driver who transported more than 400 boxes of Creole cigarettes without legal documentation, presumably for sale”.
The proliferation of drugs in the eastern region of the island is not limited to Granma. In Holguín, for example, “the sale of chemical It is seen in any corner and consumption in sports areas and recreation areas is done at any time among young people who sometimes do not exceed 15 years, ”he tells 14ymedio Rolando, a resident in the header city.
As for marijuana, although his presence had resent the arrival of the chemicalmuch cheaper and more powerful, the holguinero says that the plant lives a resurgence in the province and is “giving the note.”
At the end of last June, this newspaper warned about the Excessive Narcotics Consumption in the Holguineras streets, among which there is a renowned “alley of marijuana”. The alley won its name for years for the ease of finding those who sold some “Pitillo de María” and its proximity to two schools converts it into a fixed point of high school and pre -university students, who now travel looking for it chemical. “With 150 or 200 pesos in the hand, any of those boys can be done with a dose of chemical”, Susana, a former social worker who attended the educational centers, regretted.
