From our Bureau of Fervent Prayers From Socialist Utopias
Once again, some Cuban is begging for help from the diaspora. This time, it’s a Catholic priest who has been left stranded by the current fuel shortage. He’s asking for an electric bike.
His plea could be interpreted as “anti-revolutionary”:
“Those who cannot help, I ask for your prayers. Thank you for your desire to help. Let us pray for Cuba, so that many things that have to change now will change,”
Loosely translated from Cubanos Por El Mundo
Cuban priest Kenny Fernández Delgado used his social networks to ask Cubans for help in the face of the crisis with the shortage of gasoline that prevents him from mobilizing to perform masses in different sectors.
“Today I want to make a request to all the people who can help me. Every day I find it more difficult to be able to give Mass in the different towns that I attend to,” the message says.
The Cuban priest stated that the only way to get gasoline is by standing in long lines for several days, but he cannot do that because he cannot leave his parish alone.
In this sense, he explained some options that he has available to mobilize in the face of fuel shortages.
“1. Public transport; 2. Pay for taxis; 3. Go on a mechanical bike; 4. Buy an electric bike,” he wrote.
The Cuban priest explained the reasons why not all these options work for him because in the case of public transport, the buses do not always work, although he said that when he can, he uses this means of transport.
“The prices of the taxis are through the roof (800-1000 MN for a trip of 13 km to give mass in Aguacate and turn around), it is unsustainable. It works for emergencies. The mechanical bicycle is as good an option for athletes as it is exhausting, and for the 2nd mass on Sundays it doesn’t work for me because I wouldn’t have time to get there, and even if I had time I would have to travel 40 km by bicycle (go to Aguacate and then to Pipian and return to Madruga in a single day). I’m sorry, but I’m not a professional cyclist, nor is it my aspiration to become one,” said the Cuban priest.
For this reason, he specified that the help he needs is financial to raise around a thousand dollars to buy an electric bicycle that could help him solve his situation.
“Those who cannot help, I ask for your prayers. Thank you for your desire to help. Let us pray for Cuba, so that many things that have to change now will change,” wrote the Cuban priest.