Catholic Priest in Cuba Blasts Away at Government, Urges it to Change Its Ways

Babalu Blog ^ | 3/1/21 | Carlos Eire

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Loosely translated from Diario de Cuba:

Catholic priest Alberto Reyes Pías asked the Cuban Government this Sunday to hear the clamor of the people for a change and open the way to a spring on the island.

“To you who hold the reins of the political power of this Island, don’t you see this people cry out for a change? Aren’t you going to have the courage and intelligence to initiate those changes, so that a peaceful and Can we all, in the end, reach an agreement from peace? “Reyes said on Facebook.

“To you, who respond to the organs of power and, in fact, support them: army, officials, ministers … To you who cannot not see reality, to you who have ears to listen to your families, your friends, to your neighbors, to you who also have a conscience and a responsibility. Is it that you do not see? Is it that you do not listen? Is it that you do not understand that we cannot continue like this and that in a country adrift no one is safe, Neither you nor your children? Do you not see that no one trusts that we are on the ‘right path’, or that we will be able to build a happy and prosperous society? Do you believe it? “he questioned.

Reyes affirmed that the Cuban people are “tired of this sterile ‘spirit of Revolution’, of an absurd ‘to resist and win’, of ‘doing more with less’, of ‘battles of ideas’, of ‘no one surrenders here’ , of “socialism or death” and even of “homeland or death.” Years and years between war slogans, while we long for times of peace. I do not see a people willing to give their lives to build a Revolution, but a desperate people because......