SANTA CLARA, Cuba - February 18 (Guillermo Fariñas, Cubanacán Press /
www.cubanet.org) - Independent journalist Alain Ramón Gómez said he was
fired from his job as retaliation for having refused to contribute a
day's pay to the government.
Gómez said that February 9 he had an argument with the general secretary
of the union, Rosa Alonso, who was asking him to contribute a day's pay
to the Territorial Troops Militia.
Four days after rejecting the request, which he called an imposition,
Gómez said he was called to the offices of the automotive repair shop
where he worked as a mechanic, since independent journalists in Cuba may
not work as journalists.
Once in the office, the shop manager, Rogelio Alfonso, flanked by the
general secretaries of the Party and the union, told him that after an
evaluation, the Ministry of Internal Commerce had declared him
"politically unreliable" and decreed that his job be abolished.
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