CUBA IS A PRISON

Why call Cuba a country? Call it what it is, a prison. Living there is hell. According to a report from Wilfredo Cancio Isla published in el Nuevo Herald today, October 26, almost 6,000 Cubans risked their lives at sea trying to get to the United States so far this year. Only a little more than 3,000 were successful. The Coast Guard intercepted the rest. They are back in Cuba. What the report cannot tell us is how many more perished making the voyage.

The direct sea route from Cuba to Florida is not the only way Cubans are fleeing the island. They go by sea to the Dominican Republic and from there try to cross the dangerous Canal de la Mona to Puerto Rico. They try going by sea to Honduras and Mexico. If successful, they cross the Mexican border to come to the United States. Cancio reports the unofficial figure crossing the border as around 6,000 in 2006 and more than 7,600 in 2005. Again, we do not know how many more Cubans died using these routes to freedom.

Obviously, Cuba is not a paradise for Cubans. Tourists enjoy goods and services out of reach for the natives. From what I hear, a form of apartheid prohibits Cuban nationals from entering certain establishments reserved for tourists. There is no freedom of information. Citizens have access only to government owned media. The indoctrination never stops. I am hopeful transmissions from a new TV Marti plane can get through to some of the population there. In the past, Castro has had success interfering with those signals. The World Wide Web is not for Cubans either. There is no access to the Internet, unless you are one of the privileged few working in the high government ranks. In other words, you can browse the Internet if you are one of the oppressors, not one of the oppressed.

The Cuban government wants to keep citizens in the Dark Ages. Not an ounce of truth, not a ray of light must reach the minds and eyes of the millions of prisoners living on the island. Even the health status of the beast is a big dark secret, a state secret they say. Are they afraid the inmates will rejoice and revolt upon hearing of Fidel Castro’s death? Contrary to outside speculation, perhaps the tyrant is healing. They do not want us to know how well (no pictures, no film, and no interviews for a month) to dramatize his comeback to office. As always, they love to portray this image of Castro as the invincible leader. This time, with great fanfare they would publicize his return to power, describing him as godlike, escaping death, resurrecting from oblivion. I hope and pray he is already dead or on his way to joining Lucifer in Hell soon. Those who know my theology can hope like me. Castro should receive the punishment he deserves in the land of the lakes of fire.

Regardless what happens with Fidel Castro, however, Cuba remains a prison until the day we depose that communist government from power. To make that possible, support the U.S. embargo against Cuba. Isolate the regime. Do not trade with them. Do not conduct cultural exchange programs with Cuba. Break diplomatic ties with the island. How can one be diplomatic with liars and criminals? Instead, cut off their oxygen gradually, until they can no longer breathe.

Recommended Reading: Ercian Testament - Part III, chapter 27, “Proligion Revisited.”