They stop and release without seller charges that protested in Havana

A street vendor who was arrested in Havana Vieja for protesting with a sign against the regime was released without charges twelve hours after the arrest.

This is the trade unionist and independent journalist Héctor Julio Cedeño Negrín, 71, who makes a living selling jams in the corner in which the road of Monte and Suárez street, in the capital.

«I buy for packets, for example, sucks, ground peanuts and then I sell them to retail and look for some kilos, but they (the authorities) have a tremendous repression system against street vendors, as they are called,» said Cedeño Negrín to Martí News.

«They came where I was with an old cart, and they told me that I could not sell,» added the opponent, referring to state inspectors who in coordination with police officers supervise the activity on their own and pursue the so -called illegalities.

“I told them that I was going to continue selling because they don’t pay me a retirement, they don’t pay me anything and I have to fight for my life. I have no license. There they sell the same people without a license as licensed, but they (the authorities) chase everyone equally. They don’t want them to sell on Monte Street, ”he said.

The Independent Cuban Professor Coalition (C3) has claimed the regime, without success, the necessary conditions to guarantee the Freedom of company In Cuba.

«I took a sign that I already had prepared where I wrote ‘below the dictatorship’ and there I started screaming. Then he clouded from that, ”he said.

Dozens of people gathered around the independent worker who asked for the end of the dictatorship in the busy corner. «Some are going to sell, others to buy, others just look or simply travel through the place,» said the unionist.

The arrest was testified in a video released in social networks by the exiled journalist Yosmani Mayeta, in which civil agents are shown using force against the resistance of the elderly, while people told them expletives.

“When they wanted to disrupt the focus and managed to reduce myself because I stiffened and could not with me. They charged me and put me inside a civil car, «said Cedeño Negrín.

«They took me for the dragons station and put me in a dungeon. They insulted me there, but they didn’t hit me. The agents told me that I was a mercenary and I told them they were slender,» said the communicator.

«They spent the day waiting for Radio Martí to publish something and wanted to see if there was news, but it was not you who published it first,» said Cedeño Negrín who talked with our environment from the same place where he was arrested the previous day.