Madrid/That the brutal economic crisis that marks Cuba today has influenced the increase in crime is not a secret to anyone, but less common is that the official press openly admit it. Although language is convoluted, it is clear in a note of Granma in which it is invited to prevent crime through community work, since “the complex economic-social relations of contemporary Cuba-strong resources of resources-have been the main trigger to violate legality and order” .
It is not the first time that this mechanism is noticed, which already stood out in another report that took stock of the “national exercise of prevention and confrontation of crime, corruption, illegalities and social indisciplines.” Then it was announced that more than 3,000 young people had identified at risk of committing crime acts, due to their separation from the study or work, “and this Sunday’s text abounds in examples.
“We have to add everyone if we want a better country, especially in the community and family context, to avoid unfortunate events that start from the malformation, or rather, of a non -existent or ineffective prevention,” says a delegate of the Popular Council Enma Pink Chuy, in the Santiago municipality of San Luis. “We are invested with the highest authority to, among other things, face social indisciplines, crime and illegalities,” he added in a meeting to address this type of situations that, judging by the text, seem to end up with a happy ending When they are addressed.
“My 12 -year -old girl was harassment for a group of men in the neighborhood. Even when I claimed them, they assaulted my home”
“My 12 -year -old girl was harassment for a group of men in the neighborhood. Even when I claimed them, they assaulted my home, so I went to the house of the secretary of the Delegation of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC), and also of a prosecutor, to guide me and act, because it is very active In the block. For everyone’s good, the storm ceased, they apologized and are leaving behind the life of lazy they carried, ”says an anonymous mother.
For the report, signed in Santiago de Cuba, a high school teacher who warns of the urgency of preventing, especially when the boys live in areas with more crime has also spoken.
Another delegate of the area speaks of the “faith in human improvement” that moved it to be part of a markedly revolutionary name – Secondary of Vilma – with which they serve both maternal and elderly households, clean neighborhoods or neighborhoods or neighborhoods or Reinsert to drug addicts who went through prison, at which time an example of success also appears.
The police itself praises the task of social organizations, not only in their community interventions – “a few weeks ago we summoned a dysfunctional family, whose members are on the verge of committing serious indisciplines,” says an officer about a task that in other countries falls In a professionalized body such as social workers – but in the surveillance of price violations, and says that a sanction was imposed on a store in MLC as a result of these actions.
The prosecutor reviews the severity of the norms in Cuba, which even punishing possession in small quantities
Another section of the report is dedicated to the performance of guaranteeing workshops or activities in prison that contribute to reintegration, even with sex divisions for sexes, as explained by the mention of training programs for women “in trades such as hairdressing, manicure, sewing and fabric ”
The report coincides in its publication with another of the official media Sierra Maestrathe Provincial newspaper of Santiago de Cuba, dedicated to the prevention of drug use among the youngest. The note is titled Not to be hugging death And evangelizes about the evils of some substances, including, in passing, tobacco, one of the most powerful industries of the island, despite its current bankruptcy.
The text warns about the dangers of consumption and the importance of being vigilant when a teenager or young “diverts her steps.” “It’s not about covering up, justifying or disregarding the matter because they may not be their children or mine; Fighting to fight this scourge that clounts to the world, and from which Cuba does not escape, is an urgency to which we are all called, ”he urges.
Arianna Toledo Esteva, provincial prosecutor for minors protection, admits that something has changed on the island for some time. “Unfortunately, in recent years, the participation of young people in acts of drug consumption and possession has risen, and not only in those that are illegal and known, also cause serious danger the use of lawful medicines, that is, mixed, mixed With alcoholic beverage, ”he says.
“23,490 Cuban pesos were occupied and the main sanction of 13 years of deprivation of liberty was imposed”
The prosecutor reviews the severity of the norms in Cuba, which even punishing possession in small quantities, considered own consumption in other countries that do not penalize these behaviors.
“In the current Criminal Code, criminal types are established for the person who is linked to these facts, who know them or that encourage other behaviors,” he says, and then he speaks of the planned penalties, ranging from the Four at ten years in both traffic and transport operations, knowledge of without informing and other cases.
But it is also specified that penalties can reach 30 years, perpetual deprivation of liberty or death “If people under 18 are used in the commission of the events, if they are committed in educational, sports institutions, penitentiary establishments, care centers, assistance centers, or in other places to which children, adolescents and young people come to carry out educational, sports and social activities ”, as in cases of traffic in large quantities or if the crime is committed by an official.
Despite highlighting punitive measures, the prosecutor insists that it is not intended to criminalize minors and that they will be treated by health institutions. “The performance is energetic and firm against those who supply drugs,” he says. In a report published by this newspaper about fashion drugs in Cuba, the chemical and Ambroseseveral parents confessed had taken to find the ways to help to their children for fear that the authorities would act against them.
Toledo Esteva illustrates with examples the “lucrative” of the drug business, as in the case of two brothers of the counterma, sentenced to sentences of 12 years currently, for having sown marijuana in cultivable areas of his farm. “While it is true that they managed to cultivate 67 plants, with heights of up to 1.46 meters, the purpose of becoming local drug suppliers was truncated, when the harvest was seized with which they could produce more than 4,700 cigarettes,” he says.
He also explained that a man was found on a bus on the way to Havana with more than a kilo of cocaine hydrochloride from I emphasize of drugs on the coast of Guantanamo. “23,490 Cuban pesos were occupied and the main sanction of 13 years of deprivation of liberty was imposed.”
Another traveler, from Surinam with 377 grams of cocaine hydrochloride was, according to the prosecutor, sentenced to 15 years in prison because with them he planned to prepare 3,400 stones of crack. “Cuba is a flag bearer in health prevention and education, while apply Severity does not seem to be paying fruit.
