In addition to the letter from the bishops asking “the necessary changes” for Cuba and that of several priests claiming respect the who want to join the Civic March for Change called for next Monday, more religious Catholics have spoken out against the violence with which the Government threatens to respond to the initiative.
The superior of the Daughters of Charity in Cuba and former president of the Cuban Conference of Religious and Religious (Concur), Nadieska Almeida Miguel, has launched in their networks an “open plea” where he shouts “enough already”.
“Since the proposal of the peaceful march, planned in advance and respect, with a clear invitation to freedom of expression, the right of any citizen anywhere in the world,” says the religious in her publication, “we have witnessed responses totally contrary, even arbitrary: acts of repudiation, threatening telephone calls, beatings caused by police officers, who are supposedly to accompany and protect the entire people, summons for warnings, arrests of young people, defamations in official media. “
The nun wonders: “Is it so difficult to allow a march that is legitimate in itself? Isn’t it easier to let everyone express their feelings? How is it possible that while some offer to walk dressed in white with a rose on it? the hand, remembering the poem of our dear José Martí, to prepare others with rifles, bats and death slogans? “.
The religious Nadieska Almeida Miguel, has launched an “open plea” in her networks where she shouts “enough already”
Thus, it calls, among other things, to stop the violence “of which many are being victims” and the “police deployment in all places”, as well as to prevent “this people from continuing to plunge into poverty” and “to make the responsibility fall. in those who do not have it “.
“Enough of wanting to make us believe that everything is fine in our country. Enough of giving an image of reality that is not true. Enough of ignoring the cries of mothers who have their children imprisoned with long sentences for saying with Courage: this is not what I want, “the nun sentenced in some lines.
Sr. Nadieska, who last year posted a letter in which he denounced the “unjust” dollarization of the island and held the government responsible for the shortage of food, he concluded by praying to God to “be able to see the longed-for dream of unity and freedom that is there in the heart of every Cuban.”
For its part, the Board of Directors of the Concur has also expressed itself in a public message. Thus, they affirm to join “with faith and hope the various voices of the Church that have expressed themselves with humility and courage throughout this week” inviting “to respect freedom of expression, to avoid all forms of abuse or violence, to to generate peace, to listen to the dissatisfaction of the most impoverished and vulnerable, to promote changes that favor a dignified life, to reduce social tension, to review the cases and release the many unjustly detained “.
“The road can never be violence, the only answer for coexistence is love,” says the Conference of Religious Men and Women, who asserts that it is time “to unite wills seeking a better future for all Cubans,” and concludes: “Let us begin to open paths to achieve the dream, not yet achieved, of a Homeland with everyone and for the good of all, without exclusion of any kind.”
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