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Castroism exploits cattle ranchers. Beef in Cuba: a round business for the state monopoly.

LAS TUNAS, Cuba. ─ "The cattle rancher is paid for his animals with devalued Cuban pesos, while the meat from those same cattle is sold to Cubans charging them U.S. dollars," we pointed out in the article Cattle, ranchers and the beef route in Cuba, published by CubaNet last April 19.

To corroborate that statement, we now bring to our readers some figures from the list of prices for the purchase of cattle by the state monopoly. We also show other numbers that indicate the cost and sale price, not only of the meat from these cattle in stores that only accept U.S. dollars as a means of payment (the so-called MLC stores), but also of other meats such as imported chicken, which is also subject to usury. 

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Cubans in Spain protest exhibition on the assassin Che. 

A group of Cubans in Spain has protested for three days against a photographic exhibition in Guadalajara, Castilla - La Mancha, which exalts the figures of the late dictator Fidel Castro and Ernesto Che Guevara, reported on his social networks Lázaro Mireles, president of the Actions for Democracy movement.

The photographic exhibition, which was authorized by the city government, positively highlights "revolutionaries of principles and commitment" among some 50 transcendent figures. 

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Otero on hunger strike. Cuban artivist Luis Manuel Otero Alcántara began this Sunday, April 25, a hunger and thirst strike due to the state of siege that the regime of Miguel Díaz-Canel has maintained in San Isidro since last November. "I don't want to live like this, and this is the last resort one has within one's morality."

"Now I have been under siege for a month, unable to leave my house, the violence has been increasing with impunity against activists, members of the San Isidro Movement, my friends, my family," Otero Alcántara denounced in exclusive statements to CubaNet. 

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Castroism in UN criminal commission. The Cuban regime was elected this week, by secret ballot, as a member of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice (CCPCJ) at the United Nations Economic and Social Council, a fact that was criticized by an entity that monitors the functioning of the UN.

UN Watch, a human rights NGO based in Geneva, Switzerland, called attention to the absurdity of including countries with "criminal regimes" in the UN Economic and Social Council.
"criminal regimes" to the commission that acts as the main body guiding UN activities in the fields of crime prevention and criminal justice.

International lawyer Hillel C. Neuer, Executive Director of UN Watch, ironically tweeted about the choice: "Here are 5 criminal regimes:
Cuba, Libya, Qatar, Belarus, Pakistan and here are 5 new members of the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice: Pakistan, Belarus, Qatar, Libya and Cuba. I'm not making this up."

 

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