Florida, Feb. 1 – During the past month of January in the municipality of Florida there was an accelerated increase in the incidence of crime in general, with emphasis on the facts that threaten livestock in the territory.
This was denounced by the authorities of the Ministry of the Interior in the most recent Plenary for the analysis of these issues, where representatives of the productive bases, political leaders in those places, business administrators and government and mass organizations of the municipality were present.
At the meeting, examples were clearly presented that provide evidence of the impunity with which some criminals act in farms, neighborhoods and communities and of the level of complicity, tolerance or lack of confrontation of the farmers and their administrative directions in the face of the growth of theft crimes and slaughter of large livestock.
Late denunciations, attempts to alter data in the mass count and lack of surveillance of herds by owners and boards of directors of agricultural units have favored or facilitated the “modus operandi” of rustlers in the demarcation; likewise, the head of the Ministry of the Interior in Florida warned about acts of fraudulent marking of cattle, concealment of information from police forces and livestock inspection bodies.
They also called on the leadership of the peasant cooperatives and other units to be alert to detect and report the presence of citizens with criminal records in cattle farms, which constitutes a violation and a breach taken advantage of by thieves and slaughterers to calculate and execute their misdeeds.
A few days before the end of January in the municipality of Florida there were 40 reports of criminal attacks against livestock, 19 more than in the same period of the previous year, with the highest incidence in the credit and service cooperatives Saturnino Aneiro, Romárico Cordero and Octavio Aragón and in the popular councils La Vallita, Agramonte and Las Parras.
