In February 2022, according to CyberCuba, they prohibited him from entering the University of Havana to an event with Cardinal Beniamino Stella, envoy of Pope Francis, even though he had been invited. “I was excluded from the list by other people,” he said at the time.
In a homily in 2020, the priest said that “when a ruler is not willing to resign, to get out of the way, he is a tyrant” and that “no Caesar is placed by God in this world. “Political authority is not above the people.”
In January 2024, the United States Department of State included Cuba and Nicaragua on the “black list” of countries regarding religious freedom.