By: Martha Beatriz Roque Cabello
Havana, Cuba - February 12, 2011 - The sense of self (a) is linked to something that belongs to a person, which therefore has the sole authority to dispose of it. Certainly, individuals who are trying to start to use as a way of life, the "self-employment, have embraced the meaning of the word literally, but not how does the government, but as a figurative meaning that has to be used to solve the problem of the moment and return to your starting point.
are many elements that allow him to think that both this new form of work, such as small family business which is also spoken, will not have the expected results in the near future. However, since we can say that there is distortion in some of the 178 permitted activities, and can be seen from the point of view.
For example, "buquenque" in the list is named "Manager of passengers" (No.52 in the list), pay a monthly fee for your license to 80 pesos national currency as have some of them and the owners of vehicles are carried daily to the house, on average, some 100 CUC (convertible Cuban peso) equivalent to 2500 pesos, the average wage of a worker for 6 months. This group of people has degenerated into a "mafia" in the bus terminals and places where they rent cars to cover long distances and even in places where they are located (also available cars) to rent them collectively.
They do not leave even the person reaches the place, then the deal by offering all types of vehicles, with prices in accordance with the carriers, who have no other choice but to yield to their pressures. In short his job is to talk, thinning the air with a slice guaperÃa and charge the drivers, which is at least "a nun" (five cuc), but as they have been approved, can not be accused of embezzlement.
Another parasite is the "parking attendant, caretaker of automotive, cycles, tricycles (No.76 on the list) that takes over certain areas of the street and charged for allegedly monitored the vehicle, but not responsible for anything you have inside. These self-employed are, to a "Code of Ethics" to cooperate with the social control, police understood. It can be said to be somewhat incongruous with what happened in the early stages of 1959, when they broke with great hate parking meters.
is also the "Keeper of public toilets" (No.29 in the list), which ceased to be a position in the staff of any establishment, including restaurants and cafes, even in some hotels there are people dedicated to it. The pretext is that they keep the bathrooms clean, which used to be a big problem and still is in many places, including hospitals, courts, public service offices, etc. 53 years ago, Health did not allow any business owner or official establishment, had the bathroom in poor condition, because the place closed, today, despite the propaganda about health, which proclaims itself the government, there is no official entity that handle it, and if there by appointment, does such work.
"caregivers" sit for hours in front of the bathroom and put a few coins in it I talk with, in most cases cuc have a soap provided to users and small pieces of toilet paper to give the ladies, all acquired with proper means, that yes, many times as you use the "service" should pay.
Although people have been accessing the self-employment are not-most-of the "available", this alternative has its brakes on the base. The entrenched bureaucracy of officials linked to the red-whatever-it does not flow this "magic solution", but also at the moment, it appears that the government turns a blind eye "to the interpretation that some people have done on this modality.
In a sample taken from Neptune Street between Amity and Industry, in the municipality of Centro Habana, were able to uncover some situations, find anyone but watch the light and are not all that is in this block.
A seller who does not fit any of the 178 approved activities, in a small space provided goods such as designer clothes, glasses, shoes, sandals Puma, batteries, sewing thread, watches, underwear male and female industrial clothing, scarves, razors, hair ornaments, lighters, steel wool, belts, etc.. At the time of conducting the investigation, a woman came to the scene to provide goods.
Sitting on the sill of a door, a person selling homemade peanut nougat, at that time passed a police patrol car and put his hands up to cover them, but there was no need, none of the crew ; of "persecuting" looked to where she was.
A "Producer selling miscellaneous items of use in the home" (No. 88 on the list) and "Producer selling brooms, brushes and the like" (No.96 in the list) , sitting in a small place, protected by a fence, selling plastic items, aluminum, wood and some others such as clothesline rope, glue, candles, steel wool, etc., industrial source. At the time of carrying out the investigation, another suggested a perfume salesman, she bought.
Without any sign that identified him as a product for sale on a chair behind an iron gate of a "home", were some tomatoes and salad at the table behind gallon tomato puree.
A woman who said she had a coffee before and changed business woman selling industrial products, including wallets at a price of 8 cuc, you can buy in stores the same stable state in 12 cuc (as part of competition), was also in sight adjusters, pullovers, makeup, hair ornaments (in an envelope of nylon Lyrics to "rubber bands")
These were some of the violations were detected, not even stopping a lot, that's why we can say that now people can take advantage of two things: uncontrolled state, always present, and fear of frightening the self-employed with the inspectors and the police.
Graph shows self-employment in Neptune Street between Industry and Amistad, Centro Habana
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