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There has to be a differentiation between theblackmail done by hegemony and thepressure based on the international right.The whole world cannot be wrong all thetime and only one nation in the mostabsolute justice. That does not existanywhere. In today’s world the internationalrelations are based on two pillars: the firstand the main one is the respect for thehuman rights expressed in United NationsAgreements which Cuba has promised tosign during the first three-month period ofthis year. And the second one: the regionaland world interdependence and integration.To demand these two ethical premisescannot be seen as blackmail or fakeprressure but as a duty and a right ofpeoples in a mutual supportive jointresponsibility.A new stage is open in Cuba. For the wholeFatherland this is a time of opportunities.The protagonists of the change are asimportant and decisive as its nature,direction and methods. Moreover, there willbe a flaw and a mutilation in the future ofthe Nation if one of the protagonists ismissing in the process of transition. Even thequality and the viability, the depth and thedemocracy of a process of changes should bemeasured by the diversity and theprominence of the four doers of real andauthentic lasting reforms: The State, theopposition, the civil society and the consciousand empowered citizenship. All of them opento the international community.There is no full and deep change without theparticipation of all. It should not be said thatno one is listening in Cuba. It should not besaid that there is nobody home willing toopen the door to the future.Here are some tools to awaken, open,participate and evaluate, as Cuban citizens,the process which everybody knows is alreadyapproaching in Cuba.Pinar del Río, 25 th February 2008.155 th anniversary of Father Félix Varela’sdeath.Ediciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 20129
IN THIS HOUR OF CUBA: BREAD OR FREEDOM?Editorial 3. May-Jun-2008. Convivencia Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.esThe answer is very easy according to theoryand good will: We want both. The Cubanpeople wants bread and freedom. Morebread and more freedom.But in practice, facts say something different;strategies and tactics seem to switch the turnsignal on to go one way but they irremissiblygo the other way around. It seems that eventhe ones who want the best for Cuba, wemean, for Cubans, suddenly see themselvesmaking a pragmatic choise, away from theethical policy they claim to defend, awayfrom the life they demand in their owncountries, away even from the rights andvalues they teach in their philosophicallectures, political schools or religions.This inconsistency, often unconcious, othertimes clearly assumed and in not a fewoccasions covered by the best of wills, couldbe found in the decisions of ordinary citizensin their daily lives as well as in the strategiesand calculations of the ones who have anykind of power or influence. We could findthis inconsistency even accompanied by acertain amount of amnesia and some doublestandardmanias, in the behaviour of someinternational observers and officials and inthe behaviour of the ones who care abouttheir economic and comercial interests aboveall and without conditions.The “bread or freedom” manipulatedalternative could be updated in other actionsmore subtle but no less deceitful: “politicalmanouvers or human rights”. Or also: “theso-called “intelligent” strategies or growingjustice”. Or even more, “advantageous stanceor ethical and risky stances”. We state thatsuch alternatives contain a trap difficult toperceive and more difficult to evade andovercome.Behind those trick alternatives, deepreasons could be hidden. For example, anexclusive and amoral conception of politics,as if politics didn’t have anything to do withthe rights of citizens; the will to subordinateand separate the human, civil and politicalrights from the inseparable economical,social and cultural human rights; a mania ofcalling intelligent strategies to the selfinterestedcircumstances; a hemiplegicprofile of justice subordinated to thedilemma of: “the money or the life”. Apragmatism with no ethics and no longtermperspective. These manouvers place usin the false dialectical position of beingobliged to choose between the materialdimension of the person and socialcoexistence and other human and socialdimensions which are equally necessary,inalienable and urgent.Some argue the criterion of “gaining time”with the purpose of not changing anythingor consolidate themselves in power. Theyforget or conceal the fact that whenever acountry is living any crisis in which anychange in structures can change the natureof the system, prolonging changes andgaining time only lead to the worsening ofthe situation, the deepening of the crisisand eventually the door is open to chaos.Let us not think of a noisy, spectacularchaos only. In most of the occasions, as ithappens in Cuba, the chaos is deaf, mute,Ediciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201210
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THE ABSOLUTE RESPECTFOR ALL OF THE
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It is clear that it is about the in
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negotiation techniques because it c
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who are firmly coherent, which does
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The government faced one first dile
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credibility, the service and thesov
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make them coherent with those inter
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democracy even when all of thesecon
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ECONOMY WITH FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBI
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ethical dimension of the debate abo
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expecting from us Cubans, men andwo
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fraternal, humanitarian institution
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or social institution should keep i
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State and the worst way to violate
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diversity would not be considered a
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democratic government whose capacit
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is no possible development. Back in
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dimension in order to safeguard the
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.Requirements to publish announceme
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That is why it is logical and good
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or repressed for his faith and for
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CIVIC FRIENDSHIP AND PACIFIC COEXIS
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we have arrived to the conclusion t
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Assembly in 1940:“! Parties, stay
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WHAT COMES AFTER THE POPE’S VISIT
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the search for it always implies an
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In number 6 of our cited Editorial
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CUBA DOES HAVE THOUGHT, PROJECTSAND
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everlasting projects shall be never
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prisoners of conscience. This group
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After 110 years of the birth of tha
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one ideology. To use persons to see
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perspective given by any statesman
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we respect everybody, we live weavi
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Relación de artistas cubanos y las
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