So much so that government representatives were there because they wanted to stop it, reach an agreement, talk. The protests in Quivicán were absolutely peaceful. “It wasn't María Cristina Garrido who started the protest in my town, it was the town itself!”
It wasn't María Cristina Garrido who started the protest in my town, it was the town itself! When we arrived, she was leaving to meet with a group that was already demonstrating several blocks from her house and had called her.
We ran to the house of María Cristina (who was the reference). We searched the networks, and the popular uprising had already spread to various regions of the country. A friend called me: “Did you see what is happening in San Antonio de los Baños?” and hung up. What was your experience on the uprisings on July 11 th (11J)?Ī. And not, that the material problems were solved, but, that I understood, I understood the nature of things and the Lord faced them for me mine was, to have joy. I was in Compulsory Military Service, my daughter was born, the country was in the middle of the Special Period, that is, they were objective circumstances that bowed my soul but, a deep and inexplicable spiritual thirst filled me. As usually happens, the Lord arrives when one has no other solution. I got to know the Lord, or rather, He made himself known, as a 23-year-old young man. How and when did you come to your Christian faith?Ī. God already dictated his sentence on this government and this profoundly satanic system. My fight, for the freedom of my wife and my country, my fight for my own freedom within my country, is the consequence of being born a slave and trying not to continue in this condition. Everything else is shadow, an image of this wonderful and it would be reality. It is true that real freedom is what He, with his death and resurrection, with his precious and effective blood, granted us over sin and its consequence, Spiritual death. The Lord, when creating us, put Eternal Life in our hearts Also, Freedom. Do you think there are connections between your faith and your work for the freedom of Cuba?Īnswer. The non-denominational or denominational congregation believes that the body of God is one, and the head of the Church is Christ. “The churches are divided by territoriality, like the one in Ephesus, the one in Galacia, etc., and ours is the Church of Quivicán, because it is located there”, says Luis, who attends a temple not registered by the regime in the Registry of Associations. The same one that he maintains and that the Garrido sisters mention in his communications and letters abroad. Luis writes about each visit, he writes about the children that both women left out of jail, their cries due to the absence of their mother, their academic declines at school due to the separation, “they are like zombies”.īetween his captivating and self-taught writing, his efforts to get food for the inmates and keep the family going, Luis finds refuge in his Christian faith. She is part of the 137 political prisoners in Cuba, who have been made invisible for almost 2 years”.Īngélica and María Cristina Garrido were sentenced to three and seven years in prison, respectively, for the alleged crimes of assault, public disorder and disobedience.
“Her husband Luis Rodríguez asked me to sponsor her, I do it with deep responsibility and I promise to keep Angélica’s story alive. “Angelica Garrido was arrested in Cuba for participating in the protests on 7 July 2021”, the South American assemblywoman published on her social networks. And not only have they kept the world abreast of what is happening with the Garrido sisters, imprisoned for their participation in the 9/11 demonstrations in their town, Quivicán, but they have also reached out to political leaders such as Ana Belén Cordero. Luis’s texts carry the simplicity that the elites hate, the smell of freshly drizzled earth so far from the corridors of power. His chronicle ended with applause for nationalism, contrary to rampant globalism: “If I don’t fight for my homeland, what world am I going to save?” Cuba belongs to the Cubans,” he wrote on his Facebook wall in May 2023. And not because of that, I am an annexationist nor does my position mean that I love Japan, Thailand or the United States. “I am against this government and this murderous system. Social networks welcome this kind of newspaper that overlaps what happens in the streets of Cuba with the fate of two political prisoners: his wife, Angélica Garrido, and the poet María Cristina Garrido, of whom he is a brother-in-law. The chronicles of Luis Rodríguez Pérez are not published by any independent or foreign media, but they have as much reading public as any regular column.
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