CUBA NEWS
November 19, 2003

FROM CUBA Employee in Cuba fired for discussing Human Rights Declaration 701t5i

HAVANA, November 14 (cubanet.sergipeconectado.com) - s of a nickel refining plant in Niquero, in eastern Cuba, accused an employee of distributing subversive materials for talking to other workers about human rights, and fired him.

Alejandro Aguilarte, 27, said he found a copy of the UN's Universal Declaration of Human Rights in one of the plant's bathrooms, and when he read it, realized that none of its articles were observed in Cuba. Subsequently, he started bringing up the issue for discussion with fellow workers.

Calixto Guerra, a Communist Party militant, called a meeting with the union's representative and s of the Ren Ramos Latour plant, and together they took the decision to expel Aguilarte.

Aguilarte said he has since protested his firing in letters to the Iron and Steel and to the Labor ministries, but that he has had no response.


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