Cuba: Having food is a crime

At six o'clock in the morning March 10 about 10 travelers getting off the bus from Pinar del Río were arrested by police when a search of their luggage revealed they were carrying cheese, fish, coffee and cockroach poison, among other products.

The two police officers involved in the operation later transported their prisoners in small groups in a patrol car.

Typically these arrests result in fines and confiscation of the products being transported.

Imagine that, these people have the nerve to want to eat! How dare they? Fortunately, police in Castro's socialist workers paradise are there to ensure that lucky Cubans don't get ideas above themselves and think about eating.