Cuba joins Nicaragua in the pursuit of Holy Week. For the second consecutive year, the Sandinista regime of Daniel Ortega deployed its repressive forces en masse to tie up or prohibit Holy Week processions in Nicaragua.
In Cuba, processions were also banned in certain localities to prevent the wave of protests that began two weeks ago in Santiago and Bayamo from being repeated. "Apparently my homilies make some people uncomfortable or nervous. The Gospel has a force that, like everyone else, makes us all uncomfortable," said Brother Léster Zayas.