Homemade Motorcycle is Seized
from a Pentecostal Pastor
Havana, June 1, 2004 - (www.cubanet.org) - During a police operative on Sunday, May 23 in El Rosario Beach, in the Havana Municipality of Güines, a homemade motorcycle (“riquimbili” local name given to it) was seized from its owner Alfredo Caraballo, Pastor of the Pentecostal Church.
The vehicle is the only means at Caraballo's disposal to transport his two-year-old daughter when suffering from asthma attacks and it was taken under the excuse that it did not have proper documentation to authorize its circulation. These types of vehicles do not get such documents, because transit authorities consider them to be unsafe.
In El Rosario Beach there is only one daily bus and no other means to enter or exit the same. The nearest medical facility is around 18 kilometers (11.2 miles) away and there is no ambulance in the same, to transfer emergency cases.
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