IN THE NAME OF THE FATHER

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Dr. Trinidad M. Bishop Torrebaja, pastor of St. Hilarion of Guanajay, died in Spain four months after
 being expelled from Cuba.





Manuel Aguirre Lavarrere
(Mackandal)      


Guanajay, Artemis, The noise caused by the regime in the voice of its maximum representative, Raul Castro, on abuses against Catholics in Cuba, has no other purpose than the justification of ingratiate himself with the believers of that doctrine in Cuba. This applies to the rest of America, a continent of a diverse range of beliefs and religions, but where no doubt the Catholic Church has significant influence.
Perhaps the repeated evocations of Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez to Christ has made the regime in Havana to addressed the issue.
The crisis suffered by the Cuban Catholic Church was caused by the regime itself during clashes supported by the two powers in the early decades of the Castro revolution.
Along with Bishop Eduardo Boza Masvidal Thomas, the most Catholic prelates remembered for his disobedience to the regime of then commander of all power, Fidel Castro, died in Venezuela in recent years, never again to visit Cuba, were expelled, at the point pistol, around one hundred and forty Catholic priests in 1961. Boarded the ship Nuestra Señora de Covadonga.
I do not know if the Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega Alamino is aware of this event, which occurred before his eyes. A few years later, he also took his streak in the UMAP, together with protestants pastors like today  the parliamentary and revered pastor of the Memorial Center Dr. Martin Luther King Jr in the town of Mariano, Raul Suarez. This pastor was confined to the UMAP and likes to use Christ as a champion of communism.
Catholics in Cuba were beaten and martyred at the gates of their temples by mobs organized by the regime, armed with sticks and iron rods. There are still people who bear witness to this wave of violence triggered by the revolutionary atheism. Do not forget that no one could be a party activist and pioneer for socialism, if you were a practitioner or believer of any religion.
The church that protected Fidel and Raul Castro during the events of the attacks on the Moncada and Carlos Manuel de Cespedes in Santiago de Cuba, and saved their lives, was submitted, undermined and humiliated by those who because of her were not killed in 1953, after having lit the candle and dig under the cassock of the priest of Santiago, while their comrades fought and died opposing the troops of the government of Fulgencio Batista. What a patriotic loyalty and companionship in the guerrilla!
Another justification would be so, that due to the embarrassing economic situation and the discredit that the regime is facing, could lead to waves of protests and calls for political and social changes, unlike the ones that lead today the Cuban nation adversely. For that, it's always good to have the church, to undermine the collective subconscious and imply that nothing can be done because Father, Son and Holy Spirit, supports the dictatorship.