In the midst of innumerable complaints about illegalities, the Havana authorities announced the creation of a new Provincial and Municipal Inspection Directorate that will replace the Supervision and Control Directorate. This was in charge of monitoring prices in the markets, complying with the mask correctly, and among other things, also public decoration.
According to Tribune of Havana, the new body arises “taking into account the dissatisfaction shown by the population regarding the work carried out by the former Directorate of Supervision and Control.” The official newspaper appointment to the director of inspection of the capitalOsvaldo Rivalta Torres, who stated that “there were some negative incidents and extraordinary events that caused the work of the supervisors to lose credibility.”
Although they do not detail any of the incidents, it is the population who reveals the causes. “They always come looking for something to be released, to be bribed, so they can turn a blind eye to any irregularity,” says a woman who shops at the agricultural market on 19th and B, in El Vedado.
Other buyers point out that the inspectors “abuse” the elderly who sell cones of roasted peanuts or coffee in their boxes, but never look out for the big businesses that have been tamed at the expense of resales. These vigilance bodies have a bad reputation and the authorities try with the new entity to whitewash the face of their supervisors.
“The bandit on the corner of my house, that guy is a mobster, he has three stores, they have all bought a car, even his son who I don’t know if he is a minor, and they have built that empire by reselling things from the store”
“The bandit on the corner of my house, that guy is a mobster, he has three stores, they have all bought a car, even the son who I don’t know if he is a minor, and they have built that empire by reselling things from the store,” he says. other. “The inspectors never get there, because those people there even sell death boxes.”
According to Rivalta Torres, there was a purification process in the old direction and some 150 new inspectors will be incorporated. However, they have summoned Havanans who want to join their ranks, as long as they have a clean criminal record and enjoy prestige among the population.
“The new inspectors will have the obligation to carry the card that accredits them as such, the work order specifying the place where they will carry out their work, the inspector’s vest, their identity card, in addition to other documents that serve as advice in the It is time to apply the current violations so that they can show offenders what decree, law and article they are violating,” said the director of the Havana inspectors, according to the provincial newspaper.
“One more body of inspectors. Will not the same thing happen to these that happened to the previous ones? The country is plagued by illegalities, which the State knows about and has turned a blind eye to. This can no longer be fixed” complains one of the readers identified as Victor.
Others complain that just as there are inspections for citizens, state stores are also controlled. “What I don’t understand is why there is no control in the markets, shops, bakeries, of what the State puts out for the people and of what each citizen receives and receives, nobody controls anybody. For example in the TRD and Cimex stores, who controls what arrives and what really arrives in the town?”, they point out in the publication and concludes: “In a troubled river, the fisherman’s profit, it is a martyrdom to have to go out and buy the products of First need”.
In early April, an inspector on a motorcycle chased an informal vendor in the middle of a crowd that bought in the market of the Youth Labor Army of 17th and K, without any result, because he slipped away with the complicity of the people.
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