Yoani Questions the Cardinal's Motives

January 23, 2011


It's no secret that we're not fans of Cuban Cardinal Jaime Ortega and his outright complicity with the Castro regime.

But apparently this sentiment is growing on the island also.

Yesterday, Cuban blogger Yoani Sanchez sent the following tweet:

"From my agnosticism, I'm starting to ask myself what has the Cardinal lent himself to?"

Her concern arises from the Cardinal's insistence -- together with the Castro regime -- that Cuban political prisoner Pedro Arguelles Moran accept banishment to Spain as a condition for his release.

Arguelles was one of the 52 political prisoners announced for release in July 2010, but who remains in prison -- along with 11 others named for release -- due to his refusal to accept banishment.

It's important to note that of those 52 political prisoners, only one has been released in Cuba.

Allow us to emphasize that point -- only one has been released in Cuba.

Meanwhile, Arguelles has sent the following message to the Cardinal:

"Tell the Cardinal that unless he's calling to tell me that I'm free to go home, not to do so."