In less than a month, seven cattle have been killed by a family in Havana, amid the inaction of the police who leave these crimes unpunished.
According to a complaint sent to CyberCubaat the “Efraín Mayor” peasant base, in the Guanabacoa municipality, seven head of cattle have been stolen and killed from the same family in less than a month.
According to the testimony of the author of the complaint, the authorities only come to draw up minutes “and nothing more.”
As part of this wave of crimes, the family has also been left without the oxen with which they plow the land.
He cattle theft and slaughter greater in Cuba is one of the most pressing problems suffered by Cuban ranchers, in a context of food shortages and excessive inflation in the country.
The denunciations of the Cuban peasants for the frequent theft of their cattle and due to growing criticism of the inefficiency of the authorities to arrest offenders, they have increased since last year.
Recently, the president of the National Assembly of People’s Power (ANPP), Esteban Lazo Hernandezaffirmed that in Cuba they kill 300 head of cattle a day illegally, a crime that he attributed to the “lack of vigilance”.
In 2022 they were illegally slaughtered 82,445 cattle on the islandmore than double that reported in 2021.
The territories of the country where the highest number of cattle thefts occurred were Villa Clara (12,243), followed by Holguín (9,825), Matanzas (8,158), Cienfuegos (7,082) and Las Tunas (6,354).
