April 11, 1997
WORKER EXPELLED FROM JOB FOR REFUSING TO DIVORCE HER
HUSBAND, AS DEMANDED BY THE GOVERNMENT.
HAVANA, April 11, 1997 (BPIC).
- Berta Vexidor Vazquez,
Certified in Accounting and Finance since 1985, who held a
teaching position at the University in the municipality of
Las Tunas, was fired effective March 31, when she refused to
accept an ultimatum. In the information received from Lic.
Ramon Olaz Castillo, the professor's husband, who is algo a
delegate for the Democratic Solidarity Party in this region,
it shows that, in the Dean's Resolution No. 1797, signed by
Engineer Jose Musa Simon, the university's dean, states that
the permanent firing was ratified by the first vote, on the
firing of Vexidor Vazquez from the institution, according to
Article 1 of Law Decree 34. The source states that the
reason given for the firing was that the worker had shown
problems in her marriage without explaining the motives, as
stated. Further in the document it states: "the
worker has not shown the needed intransigence and
combativeness that she demonstrated before, which earned her
many awards, incentives, added responsibilities and the
title of party militant, therefore it is obvious that she's
being subjected to external influences, which, without a
doubt, will be an obstacle for the formation of the
generations of pupils which the country seeks to see
graduate", concluded the paragraph. "I was fired
myself as a psychologist at the psychiatric hospital in the
same jurisdiction, on August 15, 1996, said Olaz Castillo,
and he added that, for over 6 months, they led a life of
make-believe divorced couple so that my wife wouldn't be
fired from her job. This involuntary separation from the
job means that we will have to take one of the children out
of the semi-internship school and our smallest child out of
kindergarten", and Castillo concluded, "before my
wife was expelled, she led a group of professionals who were
researching the derivatives of sugar cane" ended the
statement by Olaz Castillo.
Reported and Transmitted by Luis Lopez Prendes, BPIC.
Translated for CubaNet by Lourdes Arriete