2024-03-23 15:33:53
The Cuban nun Nadieska Almeida spoke about the protests that occurred in Cuba on March 17 and assured that no person who participated was paid to take to the streets.
The nun mentioned that the Antilleans, despite presenting hundreds of obstacles, looked for a way to come out head-on in the demonstrations.
“They chose to live facing and assuming each challenge in their walk through life. Life of Faith, but also life in the historical everyday life of one’s being. Life of decisions, of darkness, of silences and words not understood. A life woven like ours, where hope is founded on trust in the God who makes a journey with us and in our ability to respond to his proposal of liberating salvation,” indicated the nun.
Nadieska Almeida mentioned that her “hope is trying to get up,” as she lives in anxiety waiting for the electricity to be restored, amidst physical and psychological fatigue, especially due to the lack of solutions.
He added that he suffers when he sees people who make an effort to go out to work every day, exhausted by the lack of electricity; in addition to being affected by poor diet.
In this sense, the nun highlighted that the protests in the streets of Cubano were paid for, since those who participated are people who are tired, who came out to demand their basic rights in the midst of misery.
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“When just three days ago our people, TIRED of so many injustices, decided freely and spontaneously to demand their basic rights: food and electricity, and then add a deeper cry, that of freedom; These people are arrested, fined, gagged, intimidated. And if that wasn’t enough, they try to minimize its value by saying it was just a small group of people. NO, we cannot allow ourselves to silence the people again, it was a people in different parts of the country. They were not people paid by anyone or encouraged to leave. Even with fear, those who came out were mothers demanding food, rest, and joy for their children. They were children tired of seeing their parents consume themselves in misery, thinness, and violence. They were parents tired of begging, of inventing, of “solving”, to put something on their children’s tables,” she added.
For Almeida it is unfair to say the opposite of what everyone saw, which is why he urged the regime to stop blaming other governments for what is happening on the island, which is why he told the leadership to assume its responsibility and the inability to move forward a country that has suffered for more than six decades.
“We should not be treated as people who do not think, or worse still, who continue to believe the lies they tell us. We have the capacity to realize the decay of this system and we are paying for it with a lot of suffering (…) We do not want our children unjustly imprisoned. We do not want more blows in each protest. We don’t want any more threats. No more hunger, no more sick people without medicine, no more migrants fleeing this island carrying a backpack and a broken heart on their backs. It’s enough. Our cry is legitimate and has to be heard. We want to LIVE on our island because it is ours, because we were born here, because God planted us here, because this is how our mambises inherited it to us, and because we have the right to choose. “Cuba cannot continue to be a prison with the sky as a roof,” he emphasized.
Finally, the nun said that enough is enough and that Cubans do not want to continue living with desperation and hopelessness, because they want to dream of a Cuba where everything is available.
“Today, like so many times, I resist losing hope and, because I BELIEVE, I cheer up again, I smile again and I say to my good God: here we are, bless us with the courage and parrhesia to bet on you. You ARE the hope that does not disappoint. Saint Joseph, accompany our deserts and help us to set ourselves serenely and confidently on the path of the longed-for freedom”, concluded Nadieska Almeida.
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