Build Your Tractor -- And it Will Be Confiscated

which goes to show you that in Cubaland, any sort of initiative is quickly crushed by the powers that be. the original article is in Spanish:


Santa Clara, Cuba,
November 28, 2006
By Benito Key (Cubanacan Press / www.cubanet.org)

Ricardo Betancourt Rodriguez, a farmer, had his tractor confiscated this past November 22.

Betancourt was stopped and searched as he drove home by the National Revolutionary Police auxiliary officer Raul Gonzalo.

Bernardo Arevalo Padron, an independent journalist, reported that the tractor was taken to the local police station. That same day, while in custody, Betancourt was informed that his vehicle would be permanently confiscated, as it had been assembled by Betancourt from parts salvaged from non-working tractors. Thus, he was told, he did not have title to the vehicle, in addition to which, tractor sales to individuals are not permitted in Cuba.


typical of Cubaland b.s. -- the government can't provide tractors to those who need it, and won't let individuals provide for themselves.