Arequipa, Peru – the Catholic priest Alberto Reyes denounced the “unsurpassed misery” in which much of the Cuban people is plunged, a term that relates those people who “can never get out of misery as long as a social change, a change of structures, a change of system, does not occur.”
TO through Facebookthe father shared one of his reflections, in which he also condemned hunger, unprotection and lack of freedom with people inside the island.
“I could make an endless list of names: names of whole villages, of neighborhoods, of people … names that carry on themselves the load (…) that of which no one speaks because in their unsurpassed misery they do not even have a voice that defends them, an image that shows the world that ignores them,” says Reyes.
In that context, the priest lamented the default that affects many Cuban workers, especially agriculture, who can spend months without receiving the necessary monetary compensation.
“Something similar happens with workers and pensioners, forced to receive their money on a card that banks cannot convert into cash, while life continues and hunger becomes more and more part of that life,” he said.
Also, the cleric He described Cuba As “a country in bankruptcy”, one where the vulnerable are increasingly pressured and remittances have become a vertebral resource for survival, also non -existent for many.
Alberto Reyes alerts in his text not to confuse liberalism with freedom, highlighting that governments do not produce wealth, but their citizens; so that they require freedom to produce.
“We forget that when a country respects the freedom of its citizens to intervene in the economy, when people on foot progress, then the country has resources to move forward and get ahead, offering all possible bridges to abandon misery,” says the father.
The Camaguey priest Alberto Reyes is one of the voices of the Catholic Church on the island Criticism with the regime. In previous opportunities he has condemned repression, abuse of political prisoners, as well as the shortage of medicines and the health crisis.
