Havana Cuba. — Throughout the past week and the first day of this week, I, like so many other Christians in Cuba and the world, was focused on the Holy Week celebrations. After recalling the painful moment of Good Friday, all the participants arrived, as happily happens every year, at the glorious commemoration of Easter Sunday.
These festivities are important for believers around the world, but it seems to me that they are, to an even greater extent, for those in Cuba. It is that our people, in view of the total collapse that the island has suffered at the hands of the Castro regime, need more than any other the moral and intellectual support that the preaching of Christ offers them (or those analogous that the belief in another divinity).
The panorama that can be seen from this Greater Antilles is frankly bleak. The economy is in shambles. inflation is unstoppable. This leads to the modest increases in salaries and pensions, which in December 2021 filled some boars with illusion and hope, have been transformed, on the wings of galloping inflation, into a bloody mockery for those same unfortunate people who rejoiced and rejoiced. they excited
The saddest and most ironic thing about all this is that when this same regime came to power in January 1959, it spewed out the most rosy promises. Do you remember when the founder of the dynasty assured that Cuba would be “the country with the highest standard of living in the world”? Or when he claimed that our island would produce more milk than France and more cheese than Holland? (Or vice versa, which is the same for the case).
The Cubans, dazzled by the populist measures adopted by the new regime, and excited by its false promises, complied with everything that the “Maximum Leader” and his partners affirmed. And they did so to such a great extent that they even accepted to forget the teachings received from their parents and grandparents, and they prepared to become partners in the hoax called “scientific atheism” or, at least, to pretend that they did.
Because it must be said that the Castro modality of bureaucratic socialism was characterized, among other things, by uncritically and literally adopting, with the fervor of new converts, not only the economic nonsense devised by Carlos Marx and implanted with blood and fire by the genocidal aka Lenin and Stalin. He also welcomed the fury that these highly undesirable characters felt towards religion, which they nicknamed “opium of the people.”
The times were still far away when someone hallucinated with Stalinist-style socialism would try to subdue his country to his totalitarian designs, but without stopping talking, whether or not it came to the case, about “Diosito”. I am referring to the coup leader Hugo Chávez and the unfortunate Venezuela of the 21st century.
No. It was decades before the arrival of that new era. Also so that in Cuba, without going as far as true freedom of religion, freedom of worship would be admitted. Or for even the only party to come to accept, among its members, some people who do not hide their religious beliefs. Something that in the “splendor age” of pure and simple Marxism-Leninism, in the sixties or seventies, seemed outrageous, but now the communists, forced by reality, accept.
I am referring to the time when, in order to occupy any “middling” job, the applicant had to fill out and submit a lengthy questionnaire, which our people, with their characteristic wit, christened “tell me-your-life.” Prominent place within the interrogation was occupied by questions about the applicant’s religious beliefs (or lack thereof). And it was known in advance that whoever gave a positive answer could count on the hatred of the authorities.
That initial period, during which the expulsion of hundreds of priests also took place, witnessed the emptying of the temples, as well as the hiding of religious images and symbols in the interior rooms of the houses, when not in shop windows and drawers. .
Happily, that situation is over. And, for the record, such a thing happened not because of the good will of the Castro authorities. This took place due to the firmness with which, after yielding for a time to the atheist airs of Castroism, the Cubans gave up continuing to pretend to accept that doctrine and resumed their religious practices of yesteryear.
And I must insist that this happened luckily for themselves. For these purposes, I must return to the question at the beginning of this writing: Because you have thought, dear reader, in what situation of orphanage would the Cubans on the Island find themselves if, stripped of the strength that the belief in a Superior Being gives them? , contemplate the current national catastrophe and find themselves separated from their loved ones who emigrate!
The very deep general crisis in which Castroism is sunk manifests itself in all aspects of life. In this context, his subjects make the “case of the dog” to the outdated rants inspired by the obsolete Marxism-Leninism that from time to time their representatives and coyotes let them hear. All of this represents just one more facet of the slow-motion collapse that the regime is happily undergoing.
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