Nun Warns of Desperate Situation in Cuba: “We Are Worth, We Can Live with Dignity”
HAVANA (TV Martí).- Nadieska Almeida Miguel, superior of the congregation Daughters of Charity of Saint Vincent de Paul warned that Cubans are “on the brink of every limit” and called for action because he believes that “resisting is not the solution.”
“We are facing very painful situations, among them, hunger. I repeat: Hunger. There are children, the elderly, families who are hungry,” denounced the nun.
His comment comes days after the UN World Food Program (WFP) recognized that on the island there is an “urgent need” and a “deep economic crisis” that is “significantly impacting the food and nutritional security of the population.”
After eleven hours of blackout, Almeida Miguel, who has raised her voice on countless occasions to warn about the crisis and hopelessness in which Cubans are immersed, in a post on her social networks considered: “We are in an absolutely vertiginous fall towards the precipice of the irresistible… How can people get to their workplaces if they can’t find transportation? How can teachers give classes, and students receive them, if they don’t rest at night?
“I will not tire of raising my voice, of inviting the people, the Cubans, to listen. It doesn’t matter that my word has no strength. It doesn’t matter that some say: ‘you’re right, but what can we do?’ I continue to listen to my conscience and in it the voice of God that continues to remind me that WE ARE WORTHY, that no one can take that dignity from us, and that continues to sustain my hope even though my eyes and my heart cry from helplessness. I am certain that God does not abandon us, I know that He will continue to sustain us, that He desires a people who live as Sons, with dignity. I also keep in my soul the hope of a people that will be able to LIVE without a MASTER and in their COUNTRY…,” he assured.
At the end of her text, the nun clarified that although she opposes violence, remaining silent is not an option either.
On November 15, 2022, in the heat of the Civic March for Change, called by the Archipiélago platform and frustrated by the repressive forces of the regime, the nun was harassed by “a group of ‘civilians’ and a representative of the Communist Party.”