Residents of a Havana neighborhood evicted to make way for cow farm

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Residents of a Havana neighborhood evicted to make way for cow farm
By Cuban Democratic Directorate

Havana, Cuba – June 21, 2006 – (Ahmed Rodríguez Albacia, Jóvenes sin Censura / www.cubanet.org) – Party officials, the Popular Council and the Chief of Police, as well as the Communal Director of Boyeros evicted the residents of 14 homes in the neighborhood of Wajay, in the Havana municipality of Boyeros, this past June 16th.

This First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba of this municipality, Luis Góngora; the president of the Popular Council, Ángela Gangarilla; the Chief of the Wajay Police Station, Captain Lázaro Font Wilson, and the Communal Director of Boyeros, José Carlos Batista, accompanied by six cars filled with police officers, evicted the residents with the objective of enlarging a neighboring cow farm. This information was provided by human rights advocate Camilo Cairo Falcón, activist of the Pro Human Rights Party Affiliated to the Andrei Sajarov Foundation.

Cairo Falcón added that these families had lived in their homes for about eight years and the Cuban state officials evicted them without caring if they had another roof under which to provide shelter for their children.

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