Inspectors on the Attack

Inspectors on the Attack / Anddy Sierra Alvarez
Anddy Sierra Alvarez, Translator: Unstated

They added State inspectors for the licensing review of the taxi drivers
on the Palma-Vedado route and they collect the inspected cars on L
Street between 23rd and 21st alongside the ice cream parlor Coppelia.

It was 10:00 PM on Saturday and the citizens who wanted to go home
formed a big group of people who spanned L Street between 23 and 21 and
it was impossible for others to walk by.

Luis Enrique González, a young man of 24, said, "While there are these 6
inspectors here the cars won't stop and those that do stop they grab
them to inspect them." There were more than 10 cars detained in the
street without being able to offer their services and losing money to
those who had problems with their paperwork, said one of the affected
taxi drivers, Alberto López, 47.

"They asked me for money," said López, "they told me to give them 10
convertible pesos and they wouldn't bother me for the rest of the
night," said López, angrily.

With taxes, gasoline, the car when it is broken and the corrupt
inspectors, you don't realize, "We work to line the pockets these hard
noses," said Michel Rodriguez a 37-year-old taxi driver.

The inspection lasted almost until dawn, when the self-employed (taxi
drivers) abandoned their routes because of the few people out at that hour.

July 16 2012

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