In an interview, Sister Nadieska Almeida Miguel explains how she weeps out of sadness and rage watching her fellow Cubans suffer in misery while the communist regime and the world pretends not to notice.
Via CiberCuba (my translation):
Sister Nadieska: ‘We are prisoners on an island that many have forgotten’
The Mother Superior of the Daughters of Charity in Cuba, Sister Nadieska Almeida Miguel, said in an interview that Cubans “are imprisoned on an island that many have forgotten.”
In an interview with Cuban writer Zoé Valdés, the nun referred to the critical situation in the country, which fills her with helplessness and sadness.
“Like any other Cuban, I experience helplessness, fatigue, and often cry in rage when I see, when I feel the lives of the poorest or those whom the system is impoverishing, because it’s no secret to anyone that in all societies, the poor are always the most wounded,” she wrote.
Her poignant words pointed to the severe economic crisis, where the population with the fewest resources suffers the consequences of a failed system.
“I’m not ashamed to say that many times I don’t have the strength or the spirit to start the day, that many times I listen and fall silent because there’s no response to so much suffering, it hurts me to feel that we are imprisoned on an island that many have forgotten. And I don’t judge, I’m simply one of those who, as a Cuban, like any other, have chosen to accompany my people, even if blindly, until I see them smile, and I smile with them,” she said.
In her opinion, the current situation of the Cuban people is not deserved but imposed by a system that “only seeks to crush the human being.”
For her, the solution would be to have a system that frees Cubans, that generates values, that offers possibilities on equal terms.
Last year, the nun also wondered if Cubans deserved this current crisis.
In various reflections, she has shown her concern for those living in conditions of poverty and for the elderly and sick who have no alternatives within a government that has forgotten them.
Oh, the world has not forgotten Cuba–far from it. If it had, if it were simply indifferent and ignored it, that would be better than the real situation, which is that much of the world, including the “good” world, is complicit with the evil that keeps Cuba miserably enslaved, destitute and dependent.
The accomplices include the “Latin” world and our “mother,” Spain, so it’s little wonder that countries culturally and historically further removed from Cuba would do the same, not to mention the likes of Russia and China. Even the US cannot be expected to do better than to make things no worse than they are–and that only happens when the president is Republican. In other words, Cuba is not forgotten, it’s screwed.