The Cuban priest Kenny Fernández Delgado carried out a peaceful seven-kilometer march in advance of theCivic March for the Change of 15N in Cuba, in which he also expressed his intention to participate.
“My #15NCuba in advance. Today I made a peaceful 7 km march. From Aguacate to the Entronque de Aguacate, in Mayabeque, Cuba,” Father Kenny indicated in a Facebook post in which he shared images of his march. “Ah! And on 15N I am also going to march,” he added.
Carrying a bouquet of white flowers, the priest left a graphic record of his journey through photographs that show well-known places in the Mayabeque town, where the Cuban world chess champion José Raúl Capablanca spent part of his childhood.
“This image of the Virgin of Mercy is very close to the cemetery. There in front of this image I prayed for the prisoners. Especially the more than 500 political prisoners in Cuban prisons,” said Father Kenny.
With his bouquet of flowers in the foreground, the priest photographed the sky of Aguacate, the Mayabeque-Matanzas Canal, a very deep cave known as La Furnia, the winery at the Aguacate junction, where he took shelter from the rain, the center of the town , the farmers' homes, the secondary school and the cemetery. He even photographed the trash can, but with the flowers in the foreground covering the trash.
Parish priest of the Madruga church, in Mayabeque, Father Kenny recently assured thatThe Cuban dictatorship does not have the moral or legal force to prevent the March scheduled for this November 15.
"Given the refusal of the Cuban dictatorship to the peaceful march of 15N, I reiterate, as I have said before on my social networks, and/or in private, that this was not a request for permission but rather a notification," he expressed.
The religious stressed that despite any threat, he will go to the meeting in the municipality of Madruga, where his usual residence is, "even if no one but me comes out."
"I am going to attend as an observer and protector of the weakest, regardless of the side, but without attacking anyone, but rather putting my body between the aggressor and the attacked. And I hope I don't have to do it," he said.
Fernández Delgado warned that if they arrest and imprison him for peacefully exercising his constitutional rights, they will do him a great honor, since he will join the group of more than 500 prisoners of conscience in Cuba.
Likewise, he called on the repressive forces to guarantee peace during the march and not to act either for or against any of the parties that demonstrate. He also stated that everyone should follow the voice of their conscience, without fear of anything or anyone.
"Those who want democratic changes, be totally peaceful during the march even when they are beaten, stoned and even shot, because that demoralizes the violent and moves the honest in favor of truth and justice," he urged.
The parish priest - representative of a Cuban Catholic Church that, increasingly, accompanies the message of those who peacefully demand freedom - warned that the march alone will not solve all the problems in Cuba, but valued it as a necessary step towards democracy.
In January of this year, Father Kenny Fernández Delgado addressed a powerful homily to the people, whomcalled to rebel against the injustices of the Castro regime.
"Before God we will have to respond, because if we remain silent in the face of government corruption, we are complicit. If we remain silent in the face of mistreatment, harassment, torture and imprisonment of those who think and express themselves differently from the government: we are complicit. If we support an act of repudiation of those who think or express themselves differently from the government, we are accomplices," he explained.
Days after,The priest called for a prayer chain for the freedom of Luis Robles, the young man who faces harsh prison sentences for demonstrating with a sign on a central street in Havana.
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