Francis Silent on Deporting Colombian Cubans
Javier Gonzalez
Dont forget to "redistribute" those refugees equally
President Juan Manuel Santos of Colombia has just returned from Havana where he announced, along with the dictator Castro and the FARC, that they are close to reaching a final "peace" agreement that generously benefits the Colombian narco-guerrillas.
Colombian Pres. Santos agrees with the FARC leader under the patronage of dictator Raul Castro
“We are close to a final peace accord,” guerilla leader Timoleón Jimenez
said, after shaking hands with Colombian president Santos at the
signing ceremony in Havana, which was attended by the UN secretary
general, Ban Ki-moon.
The accord includes security guarantees for the FARC guerrillas during
its planned transition to a peaceful political party. However, a much
harsher fate awaits the Cuban refugees in Colombia. In a public
statement in Colombia after arriving in Havana, Santos said with
unusual severity that the close to 1,300 Cubans who had fled the island
prison – presently living in crowded conditions in several sites in
Colombia – will ruthlessly be deported to Cuba.
The inhumane decision of President Santos was confirmed by the Colombian
Director of Immigration Christian Krüger, who, coming from a meeting
with the Colombian president, said with no less cruelty: "Those who do
not leave the country voluntarily will be deported."
Colombia started the deportation of the betrayed Cuban refugees on August 5
The gravity of this statement is augmented by the fact that for the
1,300 Cubans, who include children, the elderly and pregnant women, to
leave the country "voluntarily" means escaping into the jungle of
Darien, one of the most closed and dangerous jungles of Latin America
and the world. So, it is pushing them to almost certain death.
Meanwhile, Pope Francis, who during his visit to Cuba promised to go to
Colombia if the "peace" agreement with the FARC is signed and who has
spoken so often on the human rights of migrants, has remained silent on
the drama of those more than a thousand Cubans who are about to be
returned to the prison island of Cuba.
The words of the Pope and his "politically correct" positions always
favor the migrants. Do they not apply to Cubans fleeing Communism?
It is a cruel injustice and a lack of mercy to the oppressed that cries
out to Heaven. The question naturally arises: Is the silence of Francis a
command coming from Havana?
Colombian Pres. Santos agrees with the FARC leader under the patronage of dictator Raul Castro
Colombia started the deportation of the betrayed Cuban refugees on August 5
