Madrid/An 18 -year -old was sentenced to eight years in prison for a crime linked to the possession of the popular drug known as chemical In Morón, blind from Ávila. The provincial press has echoed this news as “exemplary judgment”, although without informing on what date the position by which the individual was sentenced, whose identity is not facilitated, is not facilitated.
OK With the notepublished by Invaderthe boy had 206 papers of synthetic cannabinoid, which circulates on the island at a very low price. Although it is ignored if the young man was dedicated to marketing, the amount of drug seized invites us to think that it was.
The only fact that has been contributed to the conviction is that he was just 18 years old, a fact that was valued by the court when imposing the penalty, says the medium, despite the severity of the sentence. However, the magistrates also took into account, underlines, “the high lesivity of the criminal act”, as much as the accused was “practically a teenager.”
The age was valued by the Court when imposing the penalty, despite the sentence of the sentence
The Cuban regime, in its particular War on drugshas taken a radical turn to the previous policy of hiding the problem. While it is true that the circulation of narcotics has not been on the island as common as in many other countries, it is also that these substances have been in Cuba for decades without the authorities having recognized it, rather the contrary, they took a chest that this was not a problem present on the island. In 2002 Raúl Castro came to say that the drug could only enter Cuba under “the conditions of a capitalist social system”.
The existence of an independent press and social networks have revealed the existence of a situation that has also been aggravated in recent years. Especially for the rapid expansion of chemical and the Ambrosethe latter less popular but very dangerous, by synthesizing elements as lethal as ketamine. These substances are sold at very low prices, between 300 and 500 pesos, which contrast with drugs such as cocaine, traditionally associated with classes with greater purchasing power.
He chemicalwhich is already consumed not only by young people, but by professionals from the island and full daylight, together with the marginality of the environments where they proliferate the most proliferation, they suppose a true public health problem and, in addition, of crime, which has led the Cuban government to declare them a war that, in February of this year, was announced as “in blood and fire”.
Since then, the actions known as a confrontation to improper use and illicit drug trafficking have proliferated, which are nothing more than extensive raids announced in each province, and that have become so constant that a particular denomination is no longer necessary.
To this is joined by preventive actions, consisting of workshops, talks and awareness activities, especially in the educational field and mass organizations. This, together with the “exemplary judgments” tries to generate awareness – at the same time that fear – to the consequences of drug use. Hence, in the announced Morón trial, the public has included, in addition to family members, youth representatives of the Federations of Secondary Education Students and University Students, as well as to people linked to the Defense Committees of the Revolution and the Federation of Cuban Women and other representatives of Education and Health, according to Invader.
Although customs has also increased the amount of information offered on intercepted drugs, the ruling has never publicized a trial to a drug trafficker, not even medium level and has focused exclusively on the many young people – and not so young – who are dedicated to selling small quantities.
