MIAMI, United States. – The Cuban priest Alberto Reyes made a spirited post on Facebook in which he calls for reflection on the current circumstances in Cuba and questions the results of the so-called revolutionary project.
“Sixty-four years is more than enough time to realize that the project called ‘Cuban Revolution’ did not work, because it did not bring progress, nor did it achieve its ideal of the ‘new man’, nor did it solve the problems it promised to solve, nor did it conquer , in the long run, the heart of the people”, wrote the priest.
Reyes stresses that six decades are “a long time spending existence in a present of survival, without horizons, without dreams, without a future.” It also adds that the Cuban leaders have maintained their power “through fear, mistrust of one another, hate speech, the systematic exclusion of those who raised a different voice, repression that knows no limits and that It is capable of crossing the borders of the human”.
Reyes not only questions the present, but also questions the future: “where are we going? What future, what hope, what incentive to live here can we expect?”
The Cuban priest directs his questioning to the country’s leaders and to those who maintain the power structures, asking: “don’t you see?, don’t you suffer?, don’t you have relatives, friends, neighbors, acquaintances… that they tell you over and over again ‘I can’t take it anymore’ or ‘how long is this going to be’?
Likewise, Reyes denounces the precariousness on the Island, pointing out that any area of citizen life falls into the category of “problem”: “food, medicines, transportation, study, housing, the cost of living, the care for the elderly… In addition, he warns about the disappointment of young people and the general boredom among the population.
The priest criticizes the situation of the Cuban family, which has been “continually fractured by emigration, by the ‘internationalist missions,’ by the wars that we have waged and that it seems we will continue to wage in completely alien geographies.”
Finally, he warns that, although there is talk of “creative resistance” Cubans are not offered the means to create, nor the freedom to exercise their creativity and the possibility of a tangible fruit.
Reyes concludes: “If you see it and you don’t question yourself, and you don’t do anything, or don’t even start to wonder what you could do to bring about real change, then you have not only chosen the slave condition, but you have decided to build your life on it. the sorrowful suffering of your own people.”
