The Testimony of Antunez / Lilianne Ruíz
Antunez - Jorge Luis García Pérez, Lilianne Ruíz, Translator: Unstated
Everything I am capable of writing, again makes me sound so naive until
I translate this fury I hold onto. And this is what we can say is the
real horror of the Cuban Revolution, outside the political prison, the
sin of naivete. What happens when, in a society, it becomes widespread
conduct to ignore responsibility, to convert the individual conscience
into a collective conscience dictated by the figure of a leader with no
fear of God and without respect for men.
This is the Revolution and the degrees of villainy increase from the
most public spaces to the most "exclusive" which are the Cuban prisons.
Jorge Luis García Pérez "Antúnez" has a book titled "Boitel Lives." It
is a testimony of his lengthy political imprisonment, of the beatings,
the real hell of the Cuban prisons closed to the rapporteurs of the
International Human Rights Commission, the Red Cross, and Amnesty
International.
It is so easy to offer a moral discourse, as he has done all these years
of the Cuban Revolution. It is so irresponsible that much of the world
wants to confuse his protests against the wars of the Pentagon with
support for this Revolution, which has imprisoned so many men and women…
for the crime of persevering in their existential freedom, of
conscience, and their responsibility for themselves and for others.
Cuba is not a good place to live. It's terrifying in the sense of the
insecurity of the individual faced with the ruthless machinery of the
State that does not truly represent us and condemns us if we don't serve
the interests of keeping power in the hands of the worst plague in the
history of Cuba. I can only commend myself to God, but I will not shut
up. The darker this evil that plagues Cubans the more hope I have in
Christ, the Son of God, Savior, who knows suffering and will always
create a path of salvation for us.
May 16 2012
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