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first you strike twice. The perspective thatthere is always an external or internal enemyis fostered. The media encourage the cultureof exasperation, threat, the trench, the waragainst the enemy. The language is that ofbattle: to crush the opponent, to eliminatethe adversaries, to discredit anyone whodoes not think or act the way we wish him todo. All of this, through the media, promotesviolence, exasperates the mood, inducespeople to revenge, foments hatred andeducates badly for confrontation. Let’s stopthe culture of confrontation among humanbeings, all of us are brothers:We want for Cuba the equality of dignity andthe rights of every human being before Godand before the law; we also want the equalityin opportunities to progress personally andin the community. The lack of equalitybefore God and before the law has provokedall kinds of injustices. On the other hand, theegalitarianism by decree has alreadygenerated the anthropological, economic andsocial disaster that we all know. The systemsthat put this value as a centre failed whenthey disregarded or crushed freedom andfraternity.We want for Cuba the freedom inherent toevery human being; the freedom that nobodycan bestow or violate; freedom from allphysical or moral limitation; freedom that donot violate the freedom of the others; andfreedom of the soul, of the spirit so thatanybody be asphyxiated inside. The lack ofinner freedom and the lack of social libertiesis the civil death of persons and peoples. Onthe other hand, the licentiousness withoutethical regulation has already caused everykind of violence and abuse inside and outpersons and countries. The systems that putthis value as a centre failed when theydisregarded or postponed the social justiceand the living together.We want for Cuba the fraternity which is thenatural way of living among human beings infamily and in the community. Fraternity isthe base for living together and the result ofthe combination between equality andfreedom. Fraternity promotes virtue and lovein every man and woman. It brings out thebest characteristics of the human spirit andit has been able to write the most notablestories of generosity, dedication and solidarity.None of the political, economic and socialsystems has put this value as the centre of theirprograms. Only religions and fraternal orphilanthropic associations have fragmentarilyexperienced the results of fraternity.But societies are not organized as churches.That would be a return to theocracies, aninvolution which we don’t want. Society has itsown nature, its dynamics and its means. Thevery French trilogy was born out of the civilsociety against the absolute powers whichsubdued the human person whether they weremonarchical or ecclesiastical. It’s about therescue of the French revolution values or thereligious values without using violent methodsor the sacralization of society. Thus respectingthe autonomy of the temporary realities andtheir own dynamics, it is possible and desirableto plant and cultivate values and virtues in thepolitical, economic and social systems so thatthe human person be the subject, centre andend of the State structures, the Market and thecivil society.The human person’s primacy results in theconsideration of two of his structural qualitiesalso as primary: freedom to be different andunrepeatable and equality in his dignity and hisopportunities. That personal freedom and thatequality in his human condition make possiblethat all men and women in the world be a truefamily: “Every man is my brother”: so stated theslogan of one of the World Journeys for Peaceheld by the Catholic Church.Proposals for a Fraternity Culture in theFuture of CubaThe practical and daily consequences of thispolitical, economic and social philosophy couldbe:1. Fraternity would place peace anddialogue as a way of life and violencewhether it is among persons, groups ornations would be banned: To attack isto violate the freedom, the equality andthe fraternity of the others.2. Fraternity would consider theparticipation of citizens as a naturalexercise of every human family withoutexclusions, in a more democraticpolitical system in which the partisanEdiciones ConvivenciaPinar del Río. 201287