MIAMI, United States. – The International Republican Institute (IRI) presented this Monday the documentary “Cuba Crucis”, by Cuban journalist Yoe Suárez, about faith, individual freedoms and the repression against religious on the island.
After the presentation, which took place at the Museum of the Victims of Communism, in Washington DC, a a panel with religious leaders and Cuban experts.
The event also included the presentation of the report by the Cuban Human Rights Observatory on religious freedom on the island, which was launched earlier this year. This research addresses the harassment and discrimination that exists in Cuba in terms of religion.
In August of this year, “Cuba Crucis” it was presented in the American Museum of the Cuban Diaspora, in Miami.
The audiovisual brings together testimonies of religious practitioners, as well as activists who have also been persecuted on the Island for their way of thinking.
On that occasion, Yoe Suárez assured CubaNet that the recording of the documentary began in 2019 as a series of interviews with religious practitioners and leaders in Cuba and that it had to be recorded almost in clandestine conditions.
For its realization, Suárez relied on a group of friends who assisted him in the filming and editing of the audiovisual piece.
“We went from one place to another with the phone in airplane mode so that State Security would not track us,” said the young man, who has already spent several years witnessing the Cuban reality with his work as a reporter.
Regarding the presentation of his documentary at the Museum of the Victims of Communism, Suárez told Cuban Journal that it had been “very significant”.
“Cuba has lived through a socialist tyranny that has supplanted the idea of God by the State, and from that secularist worldview it eliminated the wonder of the individual being to understand it as a mass. To destroy it, in short”, he assured.
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