2024-07-08 16:46:15
Stealing sugar in Cuba is almost a “national sport,” especially in the towns and bateyes that (still) survive thanks to this sector.
When there is grinding and when you have an active central, one of the many that Castroism dismantled, then the “harvest” benefits almost everyone.
You steal oil to cook at home or to sell to the almendrones drivers, molasses to raise your pigs, or welding rods.
Stealing sugar was the solution that a group of twelve people found to survive in the Cuba of “continuity” and “creative resistance.”
At the Harlem Agroindustrial Complex in Bahía Honda, Artemisa province, two security guards allowed two groups to enter to steal the candy, after accepting a large sum of money.
Government spokesmen attacked the mill’s guards, as confirmed in several posts on social media.
The robbery took place in the company’s production warehouses, according to a note from the official Cubadebatetaken from the provincial The Artemisian.
The note, dated July 6, 2024, details that the two guards received 10,000 CUP and then 13,000 CUP for a ZIL 130 truck to take away a ton of sugar.
Clarification: the truck is from the same company, which confirms what we said in the second paragraph, that the “harvest” is done by everyone, including drivers, managers and “malanga and the food stand.”
After the events became known (the note adds without specifying that it could have been a snitch from the town who informed on them), the Ministry of the Interior arrested the 12 participants.
“…the prosecutor imposed a precautionary measure of provisional imprisonment on ten of them, given the social harm of these behaviors, and the sum of 30,890 CUP was seized.”the report says.
The guards were charged with bribery for accepting the bribe so that the others could enter and steal. The rest of the thieves were accused of robbery and bribery for offering the money.
The note details that “Once the criminal investigation was concluded, the case was placed by the Prosecutor’s Office at the disposal of the Criminal Division of the Provincial Court of Artemisa”who charged them with the aforementioned crimes.
“The requested sanctions range from eight to 18 years of imprisonment and, in the case of the custodians, the additional sanction of prohibition from exercising their position or office in a state economic entity for the same period as the main sanction.”the report says.
The news article is a “gem” of revolutionary writing, the lies, the manipulation and the sycophancy typical of mass disinformation media.
In one paragraph they mention the “blockade” that the country has suffered and in particular the sugar sector, victim of the fall of the socialist camp.
“The sugar sector, a historic example of dignity and principles in our country, has suffered like no other from the onslaught of the blockade and the changes that occurred in the 1990s with the disappearance of the socialist camp, and although it was painful and necessary to reduce the number of industries, the country is making every effort to maintain sugar production for the basic basket and social consumption.”
The report closes by citing the dictator Fidel Trasto, who was responsible for the destruction of sugar mills throughout the country, the lifeblood of many towns and bateyes.
The Comedian in Chief is joined by Martí, who taught us the importance of “dignified, honest and enlightened work.”
“… now Fidel with his timely warning and action”[…] When it seems that a revolutionary has nothing left, he must always have a little shame, and a lot can be done with that little shame.”
The original news article bears the title “Bitters made in sugar mill exposed” and the signature is from the “Artemisa Provincial Prosecutor’s Office”.
The photo in the article is a delight: the Harlem central, formerly Bahia Honda or “Central Gerardo”, with the Castro slogan of “If possible”a text that stopped being optimistic a long time ago.
Cubans Around the World Editorial Team