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"The night will not be eternal.The dangers and hopes for Cuba", the book that the Cuban opposition Oswaldo Payá completed shortly before his death in 2012, was presented Wednesday in Miami by a group of journalists and writers.
The widow of the founder of the Christian Liberation Movement, Ofelia Acevedo, author of the prologue; his daughter Rosa María, leader of the Cuba Decide movement, and the reporters David E. Hoffman, editor-in-chief of the Washington Post; Roberto Rodríguez Tejera and Carlos Alberto Montaner were the protagonists of the event.
The presentation took place at the Ermita de la Caridad, a place of devotion and meeting for the Miami Cubans and where Payá met the exiles in 2002, after receiving the Sakharov Prize.
The purpose of this book – wrote its author – is "to help discover that (Cubans) we can live the process of liberation and reconciliation and walk toward the future in peace."
His daughter Rosa María, leader of the Cuba Decide movement who encourages the holding of a plebiscite for the Cuban people to decide on the political system that he wants for his country, considers that the Inheritance of his father is alive six years after his death. death, that she and her family believe to be the product of an "attack".
On July 22, six years after the death of Payá Sardiñas and dissident Harold Cepero, while they were leaving the road in Bayamo (Cuba), the car in which they were traveling with the Spanish politician Ángel Carromero, who drove and survived.
In recent statements, Payá said that in this book, his father "reflects on how and why Cubans have reached this point in history and how we can get out of it".
Payá begins by explaining his "intention" in writing this book, in which he reflects, among other things, "dechristianization", "culture of fear" and "aggression against the family", but also education, economics, corruption, social clbades and "time of change" in Cuba.
The last part is dedicated to reconciliation. The epilogue is significantly titled "You must dream". In the prologue, Ofelia Acevedo says that her husband's "true vocation" was "the ceaseless search for peaceful ways that would allow Cubans to conquer the fundamental rights that were denied to us by the dictatorship of Castro". "From where the strength of his leadership, which transmitted confidence, security and optimism to those who listened, giving them new hope," explains his widow.
Hoffman, winner of the 2010 Pulitzer Prize and one of the presenters of the work, considers "La noche no sera eterna" as "a beacon for the future of Cuba".
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