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against the Cuban people!"

Just a few days from the Inter-American Meeting of Bishops that will be held in Havana (Febr. 14th-16th), the Cuban ex-political prisoner Armando Valladares, makes a public plea to the participants of such event, to condemn the communist "internal embargo," that suffocates the Cuban people. He also points out to the responsibility of the ecclesiastical body of the Americas, for their actions or omissions in the prolongation of a drama that stretches over four long decades

Miami (CubDest)-- "It has been a year ago that H.H. John Paul II visited Cuba, and it still continues to be sieged and suffocated by the terrible internal embargo imposed by the communist regime with blood and suffering," states Armando Valladares, Cuban ex-political prisoner and ex- U.S. Ambassador to the Commission of Human Rights of the UN, in an open letter to the President of the Latin American Episcopal Council (CELAM), Msgr. Oscar Rodriguez Maradiaga, and to the participants at the Inter-American Meeting of Bishops that is being held in Havana from the 14th to the 16th of February of this year.
In the dispatch published in the Diario Las Americas, Valladares, one of the most internationally-recognized figures in the Cuban exile community, states that the internal embargo is carried on "through the policing and ideological repression, which is based on a Constitution which in its ignominious art. 62, only concedes a make-believe freedom, including a religious one, to those who accept a 'modus vivendi', or more precisely, a 'modus moriendi', with Communism."
Armando Valladares, who spent 22 years in Cuban prisons, points out in his letter, citing examples, the historic responsibility of so many clergymen of the continent, by supporting directly or indirectly the communist regime, or by having been kept silent around the drama of the Cuban people: "It would have been almost impossible, the prolongation during so many decades, of the communist dictatorship in Cuba, if it would not had been for the silence, temporizing and even helpful attitudes of so many ecclesiastical figures of the Americas; behavior that generally have continued since the beginning of the Cuban revolution until today."
"While the flock was being decimated," continues Valladares, "in the American continent -and not only in Cuba- Shepherds that one would have the right to expect to speak out and denounce the physical and spiritual genocide, instead kept quiet or praised the supposedly Cuban paradise."
In view of this historic responsibility, the Cuban ex-political prisoner affirms: " One downright word of condemnation to the implacable internal embargo against the Cuban people -by the distinguished participants to the 27th Inter-American Meeting of Bishops- would be a way to repair the profound spiritual and moral damage done to the Cuban people -by words, actions or omissions- of so many clergymen on the island and in the Americas; but most of all, and without a doubt, it would be a decisive step towards the liberation of our people. In a different perspective, the prolongation of the silence over the internal Communist embargo against the Cuban people, would mean the continuation of the agony of our brothers in the island. It is frightening to think that any word or sympathetic gesture by the distinguished members of the great Inter-American Meeting of Bishops, towards the tyrant and his disastrous regime, will contribute to allow the Cuban Communist virus, entrance into the 3rd millenium.
Valladares concludes: "From your lips and from your pens, depend that, at the door of the new millenium, Cuba would become part of "an America, land of Christ and Mary", according to an expression made by H.H. John Paul II during his recent visit to Mexico; or continue being the land of Marx, of Lenin, and of liberation theologians, that in the prison-island, are transformed into collaboration theologians."
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