Vatican City (Fides Service) - We must say that we hoped for change, we hoped that El Maximo would have the courage to open Cuba to Democracy...some of his openings, some of his acts, welcoming the Holy Father, authorisation for the building of a new convent for the Brigidine Sisters.
We hoped, although the news we received did not speak of hope. We hoped and we were wrong, holding our breath for something to happen. In this way perhaps we gave the regime the impression that its lider was covered by our silence…but it was not a covering, it was only charity, it was offering him a chance to walk towards the rediscovery of His dignity.
But Fidel is using the fist of his salute against those demanding justice for the people, for the most elementary expression of democracy such as dissent
The closed fist of Fidel, full of the flies of rhetorical populism whose buzzing filled the gulags with cadavers, continues to strike defenceless people. LDM (Fides Service 29/4/2003 EM lines 13 Words: 162)