In this file photo from Sept. 20, 2015, Pope Francis meet with Fidel Castro in Havana.
Posted on 06/03/2023 7:46:26 PM PDT by marshmallow
ACI Prensa Staff, May 31, 2023 / 14:25 pm Father Alberto Reyes of the Archdiocese of Camagüey in Cuba said the 64 years that have elapsed since Fidel Castro seized power in 1959 “is more than enough time to realize that the project called the ‘Cuban Revolution’ didn’t work, because it didn’t bring progress, nor did it achieve its ideal of the ‘new man.’”
In a May 26 post on Facebook, Reyes pointed out that during these decades what has happened in Cuba is a precariousness of life and an increase in “the desire to escape.”
In addition, he pointed out, the six decades that have elapsed are “more than enough time to prove that, in reality, power over this people has been maintained through fear, mistrust ... repression that knows no limits and that is capable of going beyond what’s human.”
The priest asked those who run the country and “all those who, in one way or another, are involved in the mechanisms that maintain the power structures” if they don’t see what’s happening in Cuba.
“Is it that you’re not suffering? Is it that you don’t have family, friends, neighbors, acquaintances ... who tell you over and over again ‘I can’t take it anymore’ or ‘How long is this going to be?’” he asked.
Reyes, who reflects on the reality in Cuba on social media, also noted that in the Caribbean country, “any area of citizens’ lives falls into the category of being ‘a problem,’” whether it’s getting food or medicine, transportation, an education, or care for the elderly.
“Is it that you don’t see how the precarious situation has been breaking up that ‘basic cell of society’ called the family, continually split up by emigration, by ‘international (medical) missions,’ by the wars we have waged and which.........
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His boss disagrees.
Oh, Che, can you see?
just like here
repression
the dnc fascist godless communist party
Communism has NEVER worked!
Communism will NEVER work!
Right, I’m sure Frankee does not agree.
In this file photo from Sept. 20, 2015, Pope Francis meet with Fidel Castro in Havana.
I guess Danny Glover, Alice Walker, much of the Hollywood and Catholic Left will want this gentleman executed for being a truth teller and decent human being.
They’re still in business-water under the bridge. We lost.
Don’t worry, the geniuses on the left in this country are going to make it work.
The news media people love Castro and the communists to this day no matter how many men, women and children he has murdered.
No, it worked exactly as planned. The objective of communism is to share the misery equally (among everyone except the government elites).
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