MHERALD/ C.Colado Blog/ France Robles
Controversial Roman Catholic priest Jose Conrado Rodriguez from Santiago de Cuba is finishing a three-month tour of the USA and Europe.
Rodríguez is Cuba's toughest government critic within the church.
He has sent critical letters to Fidel and Raúl Castro, and blasted the government in his homilies and comments to the news media.
Government-inspired mobs and state security agents have raided his church to drag away protesting university students who had sought refuge there.
"They put off mass lay offs -- probably in reaction to the popular uprisings in the Middle East. "They knew it was going to be very, very problematic," Rodriguez said, citing an expression: "If you're neighbor's beard is on fire, wet yours."
Also...in his opinion...not many people are getting new business licenses because they of the "absurd fees, that are disproportional to the profits," he said.
He also worries that remittances have made too many Cubans lazy.
"People are used to not working," he said. "It's a danger. That you can live without working is a very serious danger for Cuba. It's not some big accomplishment of the country's, but rather denigrating. People do not want to work, because they have an 80-year-old aunt who out of her small savings maintains a bum abroad, because she has a heart."
FOR EVEN MORE, SEE:
http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/05/19/2225247/cuban-priest-says-hes-skeptical.html
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