Madrid/The controversy has reached José Daniel Ferrer more than a week after, in a Interview with the independent media The touch, will be pronounced in favor of a reconciliation process with the Cuban regime if it decided to initiate it. “The issue is to resolve in a non -violent way, as soon as possible, the serious suffering of an entire nation,” argues the leader of the Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), released last January 16.
The opponent, one of the most significant members of the Cuban dissent and imprisoned on multiple occasions in recent years, explains for an hour and a half in conversation with Eloy Viera about his last stage in prison, the harsh living conditions in Mar Verde , the Santiago de Cuba prison where it has been isolated for a good part of recent years and with prohibited visits. But he also dedicates extensive minutes to address the political situation of the island and the possible solutions.
Ferrer, who refers numerous times to his beliefs to refer to forgive Be the regime who has the initiative.
“If they decide, even if it is late, start a rapid transition process here in Cuba, because I would agree that this process begins to walk”
“If they decide, even if it is late, to start a rapid transition process here in Cuba, because I would agree that this process begins to walk and reconcile ourselves and take us out to Cuba forward. And I am going to forget the one who kicked me, that those who criticize me and attack me may not have gone through prison for 12 years in those conditions, ”warns the opponent, aware that his words do not like in a wide sector of the population that , in his opinion, he speaks from the comfort of not having passed deprivation of liberty, ill -treatment and attacks on his relatives.
Ferrer continues to compare that eventual process with that of other countries in which he has had to dialogue with the hierarchy of a dictatorship, and quotes Poland or Chile among them.
“Does Lech Walesa not negotiated with Jaruzelski, the man who declared martial law, brought the tanks to the streets and was responsible for the death of peaceful protesters, of workers in Poland? Didn’t they end up agreeing a whole process? Didn’t solidarity come to power with the support of the people? Why are we not going to opt for that way in Cuba? ”He claims. Ferrer recalls that many of those who oppose a dialogue lack, even, the force of a mass of followers supporting them and insists that the dissent must remain firm and united.
“The only way to get to that point is to unify ourselves, that we understand each other, that we implement truly useful strategies and tactics to achieve the necessary political force to have a movement like the one Gandhi had in India and led the English to grant them Independence, or like the one that had solidarity in Poland and led the Poles to leave communism or as the one that happened in Chile and took Pinochet to the plebiscite that he lost even by a narrow margin but lost it. He ran the risk of winning and continuing with his regime but lost it, ”he continues, in the minute and a half more controversial of the interview.
“Any ethical and moral thing in order to solve the problem of Cuba. The unworthy, the most unworthy of all this is to cling to that I want Hating, even those most criminal, the most abusers, the ones who have done the most, ”he concludes.
“Any ethical and moral thing in order to solve the problem of Cuba. The unworthy, the most unworthy of all this is to cling to that I want to lie down, I hate them “
The interview was broadcast on the 24th live from the Facebook page of The touch, moment in which she received the applause of a large majority of those who followed her. Many, even underlined their moral force to, in the midst of the suffering that has passed over the years, is able to forgive and put the interests of the nation against personal.
However, this Saturday, the exiled doctor Lucio Enriquez Nodars published on his social networks the cut of the interview in which Ferrer is prone to accept a dialogue if the regime asks for. “And what is this? Reconciliation with the murderers? We don’t want them to kill them! We want them to judge them! ”He proclaims.
The publication of comments has come to its publication, from those who consider that it has been made a “brainwashing, together with the administration of substances that create confusion and the reiteration of all that is what we are listening”, to whom they hint that hint He has already made some kind of agreement with the authorities. “Do you think that what they have said has ever happened was really going somewhere? The truth would have a very good genetics to get so physically vigorous. I have seen them leave dust, the difference is seen quite between one and the other, ”says another user.
Military intervention requests flood the comments of that publication, where Dr. Enriquez’s friends have crossed accusations with whom they have requested respect for such a long data. “I believe that Ferrer is clearer than all of us together (…) What a pity Lucio, who far from understanding a person who has suffered much more than the majority that dictatorship, you are already cataloging him with betrayal. My reading, on the contrary, is admiration, a man who has more years in jail than out of it, in recent times, which has been beaten on many occasions has room for forgiveness, and who has everything clear, the goal It is to end once and for all the suffering of the people and not cling to hate, ”says an exile in Canada who receives countless criticism as well.
José Daniel Ferrer is one of 2003’s black spring prisoners, when he received a death sentence switched for 25 years in prison. Eight years later he was released thanks to the efforts of the Vatican and the mediation of Spain. Since then, it has remained at the head of the UNPACU, which has meant countless problems with state security. He July 11, 2021 He was arrested before being able to join the massive demonstrations of that day and there he was until last January 16, subject to All kinds of abuse and vexations. He is one of those considered prisoners of conscience by Amnesty International, who has claimed him as a symbol of many others punished for his opposition to the regime.
