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Ramon Matos Duran is a fisherman from the Bay of Mata in Baracoa.
He tells us about an unhappy encounter he had with the local authorities.
They committed an injustice against me. I live from fishing.
They assaulted and humiliated me and my family.
They ripped apart my boat, there is no way to describe what they did.
They even came armed with machetes. Three arrived with machetes.
Ramon explains that he has no other source of support.
I have no house. I have nothing to live on. The only thing I live on is fishing.
His boat was completely destroyed.
This small thing that you see here are pieces of the boat.
They are the small things that are left when they destroyed it.
The rest, that same day, the rest, the sea took it.
My wife is over there and my son. My son was terrified and crying.
And the one that was chopping, each time he would chop, my son who was crying,
would go and get involved to get him to stop chopping. He almost pushed him.
The Bay of Mata is a fishing zone.
The majority of the inhabitants support themselves on what the sea provides them.
This is a fishing zone. Look at all of these small houses that there are here.
We live from fishing from this bay.
The bay where we were born and have created everything.
His wife also states about the events:
Like they say, the only thing that is important are the Americans.
But yesterday Americans came. They were the same ball of string nasty and urban.
They came yesterday and they went to sites that are now urban.
As well, Ramon was charged by the authorities.
After me being the victim, the most humiliated man in the world, and even more.
I am going to tell you why.
Because instead of being the one that accuses them,
I end up almost charged.
He also sends a message to all who will listen to him:
That any reprisals that they take against me is the fault of the government.
Reported from the Bay of Mata in Baracoa, by Anderlay Guerra Blanco.