MIAMI, United States. – Catholic priest Alberto Reyes urged Cuban leaders to leave power in the face of the critical situation the country is going through. “Leave, please, leave,” wrote the priest on his Facebook profile, where he also insisted that the current rulers will not be able to solve the serious problems facing Cuba.
“You are not going to refloat this country, you are not going to remedy the lack of fuel, nor the precariousness of thermoelectric plants, nor are you going to give us back a life without continuous blackouts,” he stated in his publication.
In his message, Reyes Pías criticized the Government’s inability to resolve the basic needs of the Cuban people, such as access to healthfood, education and essential services. “You are not going to solve the hunger of this people, nor are you going to ensure that the days stop being a continuous fight for survival,” he said.
The priest also denounced the deterioration of the health system in the country and pointed out that the rulers are not capable of guaranteeing medical care or access to medicines: “You are not capable of preventing the deterioration of the chronically ill, nor the deaths from the shortage of basic inputs.”
Another of the central points of his reflection was the mass exodus of Cubansespecially young people, who flee in search of a better future. “You are not capable of stopping the galloping and unstoppable emigration of this people, you cannot prevent Cuba from continuing to be an island in flight,” he wrote.
The priest went even further by accusing the rulers of having left the nation without a project for the future, with a country that feels “like a ship without direction, where no one knows where it is going, where life is increasingly more uncertain, where everything goes out and dies.”
At the end of his message, Reyes Pías issued a warning to the rulers about the possible consequences of their actions if they do not abandon power. “Do it before, somehow, things change and you can be tried, accused of crimes against humanity,” he said, adding that what they have done to the Cuban people is “a silent genocide.”
The priest also expressed his concern about a possible violent social outbreak if the situation does not improve: “Leave, before these people reach the end of their endurance and rise up with uncontrollable fury.”
Reyes Pías ended his message by asking the rulers to leave in peace to allow Cubans to live with dignity. “I beg you, leave. Live where you want and can, so that we can live too,” he concluded.
