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Crime is emboldened in Cuba. Price violations, illicit economic activity, corruption, and the diversion of material and financial resources predominate. Its harmful impact is reflected in the report from the final sessions of the 22nd Congress of the Worker’s Central Union of Cuba.
While delegates analyzed the issue virtually, I noted in my agenda that this year there have been 64 incidents of robbery with force in the province of Ciego de Ávila.
Unscrupulously, criminals targeted the electrical infrastructure, causing damage valued at more than 1,078,000 pesos. They stole about 20,000 liters of dielectric oil, damaging 88 electrical transformers.
Two attempted robberies were thwarted at the Nereida photovoltaic solar park, located between the municipalities of Ciro Redondo and Morón; a tanker truck loaded with 6,000 liters of fuel from the Pina deposit wells was stopped; and bandits failed in their attempt to break concrete railroad ties to extract the steel inside.
What happens in these provinces is just a sample of what is occurring across the country.
Although work has been done in prevention and confrontation, weaknesses remain in the implementation of worker guard duty and in the reporting system from workplaces.
Today criminal activity is growing. The cost of living is rising. Surrender is not an option. Facing it head‑on is the best decision.
In this sense, I return to the concept of Revolution: “…it is to defy powerful dominant forces within and outside the social and national sphere…”
It is urgent to strengthen Fidel’s thinking in this time of implementing economic and social transformations.
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Licenciado en Comunicación Social. Economista y periodista. Escribe sobre asuntos económicos, agropecuarios, de la construcción y la cultura. Multipremiado en concursos de periodismo, festivales de la radio y otros eventos. Atesora las distinciones Félix Elmuza y Raúl Gomez García, los sellos Laureado y 50 aniversario del periódico Trabajadores, y la Moneda Conmemorativa 60 aniversario de la UPEC.
