Mario Barosso, Translator: JT
On the 8th of May, Juan Wilfredo Soto Garcia died in Santa Clara, the
victim of a beating received on the 5th day (of the month). He had left
with me the blow of the news, and my Christian principles inculcated
since a I was boy were put to the test. The time was coming for me to
choose between acting like the bishop and the Levite in the biblical
parable, with idleness and evasion before violence; or as the repudiated
Samaritan who had without a doubt the sensation of acting as God ordains.
Scandalized by the official treatment given to the case on the 8th of
June, I presented myself together with Pastor Ricardo Santiago Medina
before the Prosecutor General of the Republic demanding an
investigation. In the following month, on the 8th of July, a list of
signatures was delivered to the same office backing up our solicitation.
I understand that these lists keep growing to perform new submissions.
Although the response from this entity was dated the 19th of July on top
of an erasure made with white-out and the issue date of 1 August with
number 4246, a postmark on the envelope dated the 8th of August as the
occasion of its delivery into my hands. It communicated that in the
foregoing, the Provincial Prosecutor of Villa Clara would pursue this
matter.
As the bureaucratic sliding doors hold no attraction for me, much less
if I smell sterile adulation, and as neither date was indicated to
attend the provincial entity nor was I advised any limit to my demand, I
decided to wait for the arrival of September now that I know excessively
the immobility of August by its almost generalized summer vacations. But
I must remember that the Provincial Prosecutor advanced my case, and
this time with the news of a new eight.
A prosecutor took the duty of traveling directly to my home and with a
very pleasant manner left in the hands of my wife — since he didn't find
me — a citation for 9 AM of the 8th of September. The 8th of May, the
8th of June, the 8th of July, the 8th of August, and now the 8th of
September. We will see what this new eight brings and we will hope that
it might not be another demonstration of what human justice is made of
an eight.
A conviction stimulates me in my principles, independently of the result
that my meeting produces this 8th of September with the representative
of the Provincial Prosecutor of Villa Clara, which evidently will
fulfill the orientations of the central structures of the State. My
confidence is placed in God, and for that God, such and as is affirmed
in Psalm 97:2, justice and judgment are the cement of His throne.
Pbro. Mario Félix Lleonart Barroso
Translated by: JT
September 7 2011
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