Central AmericaArchbishop Clavel is the former Archbishop of Panama and was President of the Bishops in Central America. He knows firsthand the problems of Central and South America. He also joined Pope John Paul II and traveled with him on the Holy Father’s visit to several Central American countries. Archbishop Clavel said that people in Central and South America really don’t want communism. They want freedom, freedom. The poor don’t want to be communists." He went on, "I have been involved in many things, and in Panama we worked with the poor, too, but the communists are very strict in the discipline and in the work. When I was in my diocese I helped some boys who were revolutionary communists to go to Cuba. Later, they came back because they didn’t want to be communists. They had thought it would be an easy life in Cuba — that they wouldn’t have to work. They felt they would have money and be able to enjoy life. It’s not true. In Cuba there is a tremendous discipline and a lot of work. The Cubans work and work. I have a boy with me from Cuba. He said he was working for one hundred fifty Cuban pesos a month, and that the people in Cuba are working all day long but have only a little food with which to live." |
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