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Conclusions from its Council. We think thatthis should be a patient process, to beevaluated. A frank, faithful, transparent andparticipatory process for the Cuban and forthe European governments, as well as for thedemocratic opposition and the Cuban Civilsociety that should be accuratelly informedand taken into account, and they should lookfor and win a space by themselves, adignified and significant space in thisdialogue, according to the quality of theircontributions, possibilities and abilities.We hope that the Cuban government thinkmore about an inclusive Cuba than aboutitself; resume this high level dialogue withthe political pragmatism and the diligencerequired by the present situation in ourcountry and in the world; attached more andmore to the real needs and to the inalienablerights of each Cuban without discredit allwho have earned credibilty and withoutexcluding the ones who should be included;acknowledge the independent Civil society asthe receiver of its proposals and at the sametime as a valid party to evaluate itsadministration.We hope the democratic opposition thatwishes to stay in the country, as recognizedby the European Union, think more about aninclusive Cuba than about itself; identifieswith realism and transparency what shouldbe changed, but above all, devise, arrangeand look for the more adecuate means andrythm to propose how, when, with whom andfrom where those changes will be done. Theperspective of the future should come firstthan the laments over the past. Theproposals for the present should bepragmatic and ethical, known and shared bythe greatest number of citizens. Thedemocratic opposition should recognize theCivil society as the receiver of its proposalsand at the same time as a valid party toevaluate its steps.We hope the Civil society, well differentiatedand recognized by the European Union,which wants to recognize itself as differentfrom the government and from the partidistopposition, starts its civic education, itsreconstruction from its foundations, itsorganization in a plural, multicolor, nonpartidist,inclusive, democratic nationalframework. We hope the Civil society will be adynamo of society and a demanding party forpolititians and rulers. We hope it will supporteverything good that comes out of those actorsand we hope it will share with them itsproposals for the present and above all wehope the civil society will implement that futurethrough small groups and projects; thedemocratic, creative and open future we wishfor us. We hope it will be really new; nototalitarianisms from the State or “party-cracies”of any color that Cuba has already known andsuffered. All in all, Civil society should be thenew name of democracy in Cuba.At the end of these considerations which comefrom our condition of simple Cuban citizens,we wish to stop in order to reafirm a convictionthat comes more and more urgent, necesaryand decisive:It’s the Cuban people, that is, each one ofCubans, women or men, however they think,wherever they are, the ones who have to be theprotagonists of the changes toward a pluralistdemocracy in Cuba. And when we sayprotagonism we are not speaking aboutmessianisms or leaderships or populisms. Wespeak about the real meaning of thatcontroversial and rich term which comes fromthe Latin language: “proto-agonae”, that is, “thefirst in the agony”, as was so well expressed bythe Apostle of our independence José Martí,with his word and with his life: the agony forthe nation.We are speaking about the daily participation,real and effective, simple but efficient, whichremains and never goes, which denounces forfifteen minutes of each hour but announces,proposes and works for those inclusive changesduring the other 45 minutes of each hour inCuba.The incipient diversity or duality which canbecome plurality is not in itself negative orworrying as long as the structural changes aremade at the same time creating or reformingthe indispensable institutions to channelinitiatives, debate things freely and reachagreements in favor of the common good of theNation.Liberalization always brings about diversity ofoptions and these bring about disorientation toEdiciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201224