MIAMI, United States. — The Camagüeyan parish priest Alberto Reyes Pías reflected this Thursday on the lack of freedom and hope that Cubans suffer.
In a post posted on Facebookthe religious assured that on the island the people “live without freedom, handcuffed and mute”, conditions that make prosperity and the fulfillment of dreams impossible.
“When society guarantees respect for freedom, the individual feels that he can dream, and turn those dreams into a guide to happiness, progress and stability. And it is hope that embraces dreams and gives us the strength to make them possible,” said Reyes Pías, who has publicly denounced the precarious situation in which the Caribbean nation finds itself on several occasions.
“A people lives without freedom, handcuffed and mute, dreams appear as unreal illusions, and hope falls apart, broken into pieces, powerless before the sad gaze that fades,” said the Father, who added that “Cuba, to Despite its beauty and its undeniable potential, it seems like a cursed island condemned to eternal night, with no room for hope.
In this sense, the parish priest made it clear that there are no reasons to believe that the country can take a different course under the control of those who have ruled during the last six decades.
“When we look at the past and realize that for more than 60 years we have lived on empty promises, and we look at the present that is less and less promising and more empty, it seems to us that there is no reason to hope,” he said.
For Reyes Pías, “since 1959 we have been an island on the run, where more and more people see emigration as the only possible solution, and we helplessly witness the progressive absence of those with whom we have grown up, we feel that there is no place here the hope. When over and over again we hear that “there is no one to change this”, hope breaks in our souls.
The “omnipresent fear and the fear of telling the truth”, the “institutionalized schizophrenia” and the “inward complaints and outward applause” are other symptoms that, according to the priest, end up robbing Cubans of hope .
“How can we keep walking in the middle of the night, without breaking our souls? How to break the great lie of sustainable, happy, promising and prosperous socialism on the basis of truth?” questioned the Father from Camagüey.
