Priest sends strong message to Cubans who serve the government to repress their people

Priest Alberto Reyes, from the Archdiocese of Camagüey (Cuba), sent a strong message to Cubans who, for a little power, become pieces of the regime to beat their compatriots who come out to demand freedom for their country.

Father Reyes, who is also a victim of surveillance and acts of repudiation directed by the communist regime, recounted in his last column I’ve been thinkingthe conversation that a Cuban had with “a close acquaintance” who boasted of being part of the people who, dressed in civilian clothes, “have the function of breaking up popular demonstrations, and are authorized to use physical violence against the population” .

“This person spoke, with pride, of the role they have asked of him, and how ‘we have to stop the people’ when the people come out en masse asking for freedom. The other looked at him and said: ‘Have you not realized that I am part of that town, of those people who have been ordered to beat you?’” the priest narrated.

Father Alberto Reyes indicated that “it is interesting how our small plots of power can make us feel so important, so necessary, even so heroic, that they prevent us from seeing reality.”

Likewise, “it is amazing how people who suffer the same shortcomings as the people, who suffer the same needs, are prepared to stop those who are having the courage to say: ‘Enough is enough!’, in the name of everyone. It is sad how the illusion of feeling important can cause those who should be defended to be repressed and beaten.”

The priest pointed out that these people in reality “are nothing more than pawns, pieces in a game that is decided at a much higher level.” “Power, even if it is illusory, is a drug, and like a drug, it makes reality change in front of you,” he told them.

“Drugged by the illusion of power,” he added, “you see yourself as the super hero, as the one who manages to control the masses with blows and make them submissive, ecstatic by the impunity that comes from knowing that you are protected by a power superior to which, without However, you are terrified of disobeying a higher power that you feel you cannot disappoint, because then you would be its victim.”

However, he reminded them that “this submission will not last forever,” because as “the Nicaraguan bishop Silvio Báez once said, ‘crucified peoples, sooner or later, are resurrected.’”

“When that resurrection comes, and be certain that it will come,” wrote Father Reyes, “perhaps you will have already managed to escape to lands of freedom, where you will try to bury your past; When that resurrection comes, perhaps you will manage to go unnoticed and hide your repressive history; But what you will never be able to do is escape from your conscience, the one that today tells you, while you strike, that you are taking the lives of your own people.”