The Cuban priest Alberto Reyesknown for his criticism of the repressive acts of the regime and the situation in which the authorities have plunged the countryas well as for the retaliation that his statements have cost him, he warned on Facebook those who repress the people who will not be able to escape their consciences, even if they emigrate.
The religious man recounted in a publication on the social network a conversation, in which someone told him about an acquaintance who was proud that he had been assigned the function of “stopping the people”, when they “come out en masse to ask for freedom”.
“It is interesting how our small plots of power can make us feel so important, so necessary, so heroic, that they prevent us from seeing reality. It is amazing how people who suffer from the same shortcomings as the people, who suffer the same needs, lend themselves to stop those who are having the courage to say: ‘Enough!’, in the name of everyone. It is sad how the illusion of feeling important can cause those who should be defended to be repressed and beaten,” he said. Father Alberto Reyes.
“Because in reality, they are nothing more than pawns, pieces of a game that is decided at a much higher level. They are just tokens to which the illusion of power is sold,” he added and defined power as “a drug.” that “makes reality change in front of you.”
“You see, but you don’t see, because what you look at is not at the person in front of you. What you look at is not at the father and mother of the family who are demanding bread, medicine, quality education, rest for their children. children; what you look at is not the young man who is defending his right to freedom; what you look at is not the old man who is alone, at the mercy of a squalid pension that does not allow him to live, you do not consider what you see as a person. critical.
Later, cited the Nicaraguan bishop Silvio Báez, who affirms that “crucified peoples, sooner or later, are resurrected.”“and maintained that”that resurrection,” in reference to the freedom of Cuba, “will come.” By then, “perhaps you have already managed to escape to lands of freedom, where you will try to bury your past,” he wrote to those who serve power by repressing the people and then emigrate.
In less than two months, at least Four former officials of the Cuban regime have emigrated or attempted to emigrate to the United States and have even requested political asylum. The most recent known case is that of former Camagüey prosecutor Rosabel Roca Sampedro, who requested prison sentences for 9/11 protesters and now wants to obtain political asylum in the United States.
To those repressors, Father Alberto Reyes warned them: “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.”
The archbishop of Santiago de Cuba prays for ‘the mothers who struggle to feed their children’ and other Cubans who suffer the effects of the crisis on the island
Another religious, the archbishop of Santiago de Cuba, Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñez, dedicated a prayer to the people, in which he highlighted mothers, who are among the groups hardest hit by the shortage of food, medicine and basic products, as a result of the failed policies of the Government.
“We present to you the mothers who struggle to feed their children,” said the archbishop in the prayer, the text of which was shared on the Facebook page of the Archbishopric of Santiago de Cuba.
Several protests for food, water and housing that have broken out in Cuba have been led by mothers. Desperation has led several of them to demand solutions even before the house of Miguel Díaz-Canel or at the headquarters of their municipal governments. In response, they have received threats of jail and having their children taken away from them.
Monsignor Dionisio García Ibáñez also remembered in his prayer “the many who never tire of looking for medicine for their sick; the relatives of the prisoners who dream of seeing them return home, one day, healthy; the workers who try to provide for their loved ones a decent home”.
He also mentioned “those who mourn the emigration of husbands, children, grandchildren, friends; those who suffer violence and theft; those who endure so many material and spiritual deprivations.”
Just this Saturday, An episode of violence that in recent years has taken over the streets of Cuba—and that the Government insists on denying—resulted in six injuries.according to the official version.
At the end of March, In his Palm Sunday prayer, the archbishop reiterated the demands for food, electricity and freedom that Cubans made during the protests unleashed in the eastern province on the 17th of the same month.
