1 | 14/03/2021 – 14:33 (GMT-4)
Young Joglis Peña Suárez said this after seeing the film Plantados, by director Lilo Vilaplana, hopes that one day justice will be done against those who committed crimes against humanity in Cuba.
“I just saw the movie ‘Plantados’; it brought tears to my eyes,” the Cuban resident of Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, confessed on Facebook.
Peña Suárez has been out of Cuba for three years, away from her children and other relatives, and she saw the feature film, which premiered last Friday at the Miami Film Festival, made her reflect on the communist dictatorship and how many victims there were. regime founded by Fidel Castro in 1959.
“I feel even more desires for justice and trial against those criminals who stole so much from us and our people. I hope that one day they will appear in court and be tried in a trial like those in Nuremberg for crimes against humanity, “he wrote. on the social network.
CiberCuba contacted the young Cuban, who is waiting for an answer to his asylum application and confessed that, although the film outlines some crimes committed by Castroism, there are still many difficult moments that remained in the hearts of loved ones and those who suffered their.
“Today’s young people should know the history of Cuba that the dictatorship has tried to hide, because it is the only way to understand where we come from and what we do not want for the future,” he added.
One of the scenes that most impacted Peña Suárez was the moment when the daughters of one of the characters failed to recognize their father. “Not only do they steal our children from us, but they also indoctrinate them,” he said.
Undoubtedly, for the young Cuban, the physical violations presented in the feature film “Plantados” were the most difficult to assimilate, as well as the ruthless treatment, he is not happy to say that it was reflected in several moments.
“I was born in a Baptist Christian home. My family was expropriated from the store of my maternal great-grandfather, who was also at home and died insane; my mother’s cousins were also in UMAP concentration camps for Christians already, my mother was refused to study medicine because of her faith, “Peña Suárez recalled.
He recalled that his father was imprisoned for six months without knowing the crime he was accused of when his children were between 3 and 4 years old. “After he was released, they didn’t even apologize,” he said.
As for Cuba’s future and the possibility of rebuilding the country, he said it should be based on justice without implying an amnesty for those who committed crimes against Cubans themselves, who think differently from the Cuban party. government.
“We are not criminals like them,” he said.
This is not the first opinion that young Cubans have expressed about Vilaplana’s film. From Madrid, activist Lázaro Mireles came to describe him as “impressive”.
“You are not able to imagine the great pain that entered my soul when I saw that film, the great helplessness that I experienced when I put myself in the shoes of all the people who happened so much, in that struggle for so many years, in that so valuable struggle, in that much-needed struggle against the Castro dictatorship. “, said the coordinator of the Actions for Democracy group.
“Plantados,” written by Lilo Vilaplana, Ángel Santiesteban and Juan Manuel Cao, premiered Friday in Havana and Miami. due to the fact that the film was authorized to be distributed free of charge on the island.
“I think this film will help open the eyes, raise awareness, think. I think it is a lesson for the people themselves, who must see themselves in this mirror and refuse to repress the citizens who want freedom for Cuba,” he said. added Santiesteban from Cuba.
Starting March 26, cinemas in the United States will screen audiovisual material that tells the story of a former political prisoner who accidentally admits in Miami one of the officers who tortured him in prison.