By: Edel José García Díaz
Agency: CNP
Self-employed individuals selling sugar-cane juice in the Villa Clara Province are the latest targets of the government. After two years of producing sugar-cane juice, a product which is in great demand in that central Province, the entities engaged in that kind of activity have been ordered to shut down their establishments.
In Caibarién, 9 of those entities operated by their owners received the unfortunate order issued by the Popular Power informing them that as of September 1st they could no longer keep their establishments open to the public.
These self-employed individuals pay 370 pesos a day to the municipal tax office, plus 60 pesos every month for each family member cooperating in the operation of the establishment.
The convoluted explanation given by the inspectors of the Department of Labor and Social Security in charge of enforcing said order was very concise: the owners of those sugar-came juice establishments must grind their own sugar cane. The unreliability of such a solution only denotes the outrageous attribute of the resolution which eliminates those small individually-owned establishments.