Alberto Reyesa Cuban priest from the diocese of Camagüey and a strong critic of the regime, sent a message to his compatriots that, not being police or military, they are called upon to undo the popular protests and are authorized to use physical violence against the population.
In a text shared on Facebook, Reyes questions those people who suffer the same shortcomings as the people and are ready to stop those who have the courage to say Enough! on behalf of everyone, just because they feel important for a few hours.
Father Reyes calls on these repressors to realize that having power, even if it is an illusory and momentary power, prevents them from seeing reality, and that they are nothing more than pawns, pieces of a game that is decided at a much higher level. high.
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“I’ve been thinking… (LXXIII) by Alberto Reyes Pías
I’ve been thinking about how power makes people invisible.
Someone told me about the dialogue with a close acquaintance, those that we cannot properly call ‘friends’, but who are in the narrow circle of our relationships. This person is one of those who, dressed in civilian clothes, they have the function of breaking up popular demonstrations, and are authorized to use physical violence against the population.
This person proudly told us about the role they have asked him to do, and how ‘we have to stop the people’ when the people come out en masse asking for freedom. The other looked at him and said: ‘Have you not realized that I am part of that town, of those people who have been ordered to beat you?’
It’s interesting how our small pockets of power can make us feel so important, so necessary, so heroic even, that they prevent us from seeing reality. It’s amazing how People who suffer from the same shortcomings as the people, who suffer from the same needs, are prepared to stop those who are having the courage to say: ‘Enough is enough!’, in the name of all.. It’s sad how the illusion of feeling important can lead to repression and hitting those who should be defended.
Because in reality, They are nothing more than pawns, pieces in a game that is decided at a much higher level. They are just chips to which the illusion of power is sold.
But Power, even if it is illusory, is a drug, and like a drug, it makes reality change in front of you. You see, but you don’t see, because what you look at is not the person in front of you. What you look at is not the father and mother who are demanding bread, medicine, quality education, rest for their children; What you look at is not the young man who is defending his right to freedom; What you see is not the old man who is alone, at the mercy of a meager pension that does not allow him to live. What you see you do not consider as a person.
Drugged by the illusion of power, you see yourself as the superhero, like the one who manages to control the masses with blows and make them submissive, ecstatic by the impunity that comes from knowing that you are protected by a superior power of which, however, you are terrified. disobey, a higher power that you feel you cannot disappoint, because then you would be its victim.
But this submission will not last forever. As Nicaraguan bishop Silvio Báez says, ‘crucified peoples, sooner or later, are resurrected’.
When that resurrection comes, and be certain that it will come, perhaps you have already managed to escape to lands of freedom, where you will try to bury your past; When that resurrection comes, perhaps you will manage to go unnoticed and hide your repressive history; but “What you will never be able to do is escape from your conscience, the one that today tells you, while you strike, that you are taking the lives of your own people.”
