While Pax Silica is framed as a promising venture between two longtime allies against China, history shows a picture of wanton labor exploitation, aggressive land conversion and expansion, and massive resource extraction.
If the United States were forced to acknowledge its own long history of aggression against Cuba—the invasion, the assassination attempts, the economic warfare, the occupation of Guantánamo—the report's narrative of Cuban "subversion" would collapse. The aggressor would be revealed as the victim, and the victim as the aggressor.
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It’s hard to be a prophet; it is difficult to tell and live by the truth, to raise our voice and denounce what is wrong. It is more comfortable to remain at the margins in silence and pretend not to see and hear what is happening, or to let the others talk. Still, if one wants a real change in our society, a community faithful to the Gospel and more docile to the spirit, if one aspires to a newness of life, prophets are needed. Like Jeremiah, may we have the courage to say what the Lord tells us, even at the risk of life.
"One injustice over another."
COVID-19 has revealed the deep roots of systemic injustice and reminds us why seeking justice, pursuing peace is essential. We have seen thousands of cases of extra-judicial killings, of arrests, of the intensification of attacks and threats against community leaders, human rights defenders, and political dissenters. Living out our faith in Jesus is more than ever important when laws like the Anti-Terrorism Bill of 2020 are enacted. The current Human Security Act of 2007 which will replace it is problematic enough
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