regime requires controls on land and livestock

PUERTO PADRE, Cuba.- Requinto is the second fifth of an amount thus divided. Requinting is bidding for the fifth part in an already settled lease. But to refine also means to exceed, to increase.

In the Cuban countryside or at sea, we usually say that something is tight when the moorings have been tightened to the maximum. And starting March 1, the regime will tighten controls on land and livestock. Let’s see.

This week, national television reported on what they have called “special process” or “special investigation into livestock and the use and ownership of land,” but since last January, during a visit to Las Tunas, when met with leaders of the eight municipalities of the province, the Minister of Agriculture Ydael Pérez Brito referred to what will be a farm-by-farm evaluation, to determine the use of the land and detect “possible illegalities for their quick solution.” official media reported.

And I say that the regime is going to tighten controls over the land and cattle judging by the missions carried out by those who will carry out the “investigation”, who, in addition to Agriculture officials, will be officers of the Revolutionary Armed Forces (FAR). ), the Ministry of the Interior (MININT), the Attorney General’s Office (FGR), the General Comptroller’s Office and the National Institute of Territorial Planning and Urban Planning (INOTU), among other inspectors.

I assume, from experience, that in the evaluation of the land the FAR will intervene with its technical means, understood as satellite, geodesy and cartography and others, to locate and establish limits, use and ownership of the land, which the legal specialists of the Agriculture will be evaluated as legal or illicit, and then we can expect the criminal investigation of the MININT and the action of the Prosecutor’s Office, or the Comptroller’s Office, and there may be cases of intervention by the INOTU, formerly the Institute of Physical Planning, in the case of buildings built without comply with the rules of that institution.

The older cattle

Regarding the cattle herd, the “special investigation into larger livestock and the use and ownership of the land” will make a physical count, animal by animal, matching the type of cattle (cow, bull, calves, yearlings or ox) with the file of the owner. In the event of unregistered missing items, criminal action by police and prosecutors can also be expected.

And, if there is non-compliance with “delivery of milk to the State”, it is not unusual to wait for a statement from Agriculture and the Comptroller’s Office, regarding forced sales of their cattle, of those livestock owners who lack their own or usufruct lands, and they graze their animals on public roads, or on agricultural or forest lands.

It is worth asking: What is the regime looking for with such a conscientious “special process” or “special investigation into livestock and the use and ownership of land” in Cuba?

With no solution in sight for the food crisis that Cuba is experiencing, with an aging population – and with economic incomes that have less purchasing power every day, as a result of an inflationary spiral that does not stop -, first of all and urgently, The regime will seek to requisition every last liter of milk, every last pound of meat, and every last cassava or sweet potato produced by the peasants – who are the only ones who produce – since the vast majority of state lands remain idle, covered with marabou and all kinds of bushes.