El cochero trabaja para pagar multas.
Ricardo Raúl Manso, un bicitaxista con 31 años de experiencia en el oficio, denuncia el exceso de multas impuestas a trabajadores como él. Desde 1990, ha trabajado en las calles, pero asegura que las sanciones económicas son insostenibles: multas de hasta 17 000 pesos, mientras su ingreso mensual no supera los 2 000 o 3 000 pesos.
“Trabajamos solo para pagar multas”, afirma. Ricardo también denuncia la existencia de las llamadas "multas fantasmas", sanciones que muchos bicitaxistas ni siquiera reciben oficialmente pero que los pueden llevar a prisión. Denuncia ciudadana.
Ricardo Raúl Manso, un bicitaxista con 31 años de experiencia en el oficio, denuncia el exceso de multas impuestas a trabajadores como él. Desde 1990, ha trabajado en las calles, pero asegura que las sanciones económicas son insostenibles: multas de hasta 17 000 pesos, mientras su ingreso mensual no supera los 2 000 o 3 000 pesos.
“Trabajamos solo para pagar multas”, afirma. Ricardo también denuncia la existencia de las llamadas "multas fantasmas", sanciones que muchos bicitaxistas ni siquiera reciben oficialmente pero que los pueden llevar a prisión. Denuncia ciudadana.
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00:00What's your name?
00:02Ricardo Raul
00:04Ricardo Raul Manso Dia
00:0631 years of business
00:0831 years?
00:10I started in the year 1990
00:12when they started this
00:14we had 5 cars
00:16plus the Azul
00:18plus my wife
00:20and the Gaviota
00:24and now it's a lot
00:2617,000, 18,000
00:28per car
00:30here you can't pay fines
00:32you can't eat
00:34here they start the fines
00:36for the paladars
00:38they eat the paladars
00:40they eat at the bar
00:42and the fines are for the visitors
00:44with bad manners
00:46and they threaten you too
00:48they threaten you
00:50that you eat a lot
00:52that they take you to the police
00:54fines that hit you
00:56they take you to the police
00:58they take your number
01:00they write it in a notebook
01:02and when they have a big fine
01:04and you don't have it
01:06and you can't go back
01:08they take you
01:10and they give you the fine
01:12and the fine never arrives
01:14the police never have it
01:16so there are a lot of visitors
01:18that's why they have fines
01:20that they never had
01:22and they get
01:24a ghost fine
01:26a ghost fine
01:28it's called a ghost fine
01:30it's an abuse
01:32and here a coacher earns 17,000
01:34per month
01:36the rest
01:38are from 2,000 to 3,000 pesos
01:40and sometimes
01:42to support a family
01:44and how long have you heard
01:46that you have taken prisoners?
01:48thousands
01:50how long have you been in prison?
01:524 years, 5 years
01:548 years
01:56and the car is yours?
01:58the car is mine
02:00and you pay for all your documents
02:02from the bank to the social security
02:04I pay for all the services
02:06and recently I got a ticket
02:08and my papers were lost
02:10and I'm still waiting for my papers
02:12and it's fines, fines, fines
02:14every time they catch you
02:16if they catch you on the street
02:18you get a fine
02:20we don't have a place to pay
02:22because it's all a fine
02:24if it's not the police, it's the inspectors
02:26but I've heard that you have
02:28remote streets
02:30that don't make it possible
02:32for you to circulate
02:34because of the road conditions
02:36all the streets have been taken
02:38so if you pay on the street
02:40to eat, it's a fine
02:42because you're more divided
02:44here I get a fine
02:46because I'm more divided
02:48I'm not welcome
02:50the inspector comes and says you're more divided
02:52and I get a fine
02:54if I get a fine, people come to the motorway
02:56and I get a fine because I'm more divided
02:58and here there's no sign
03:00that I'm more divided
03:02so you can't pay here
03:06everything is like this
03:08everything is a crime
03:10I don't get along with the visitors
03:12you have children
03:14and now the new laws
03:16what are they?
03:18the new laws
03:20if you don't have papers
03:22you get a fine of $17,000
03:24$18,000
03:26and you get a fine
03:28this is not done by the state
03:30this is done by us
03:32this is not for the cars to be fined
03:34if the people are not from here
03:36they are from Camagüey
03:38we give them papers
03:40because Cuba is a single country
03:42and you get a fine
03:44if you don't have papers
03:46you get a fine
03:48and you get a fine
03:50and the repair of your car
03:52is done by us
03:54tires, axles, everything
03:56and you get a fine
03:58$17,000
04:00what you have left to pay
04:02a tire
04:04$17,000
04:06a bed, $3,000
04:08a car
04:10$500
04:12$500 depends on what you have left
04:14it's an abuse
04:16it's an abuse
04:18reporting for ADN Cuba
04:20Carlos Milanés
04:22Julio Cesar Góngora
04:24this is the reality
04:26of the Lord
04:28look
04:30a car confessed by himself
04:42For more information go to www.aclu.org