The daily life of each citizen and of the nation requires, first of all, stability. Were we to be asked: what are at this time some of the key words in Cuba, and in the world? we would reply: uncertainty, restlessness, vicissitude. These existential conditions lead to instability in civil society, something which nobody wants to see happen. In fact, instability, nervousness, and feeling out of sorts does grave damage to the quality of people’s lives...

Editorial No. 58 Year X, No. 4, JULY-AUGUST 2017 THE CITY AND ITS CITIZENS ON 125 YEARS OF THE CITY CHARTER OF PINAR DEL RÍO On the occasion of the celebration on September 10, 2017 of 150 years since Queen Isabella II of Spain granted the city charter to Pinar del Río, we would like to express our general considerations, not parochial ones, regarding the city and its citizens. We know that this type of celebrations are being rescued throughout the...

Editorial No. 57 Year X, No. 3, MAY-JUNE 2017 THE HOMELAND, THE INSTITUTIONS AND THE STREETS ARE FOR AND SHOULD BELONG TO ALL CUBANS The inclusion of all Cubans of both genders in all spaces of the nation, in its social institutions and in public services, without distinction regarding their political or religious ideas, is the greatest expression of citizen sovereignty, of the unity in diversity of the Nation and of the guarantee of all rights for...

Editorial No. 56 Year X, No. 2, March-April-2017 LEGITIMACY CAN ONLY BE GRANTED BY THE CITIZENRY A new electoral law has been announced in Cuba. A new electoral process is supposed to begin. The relief of the President of the Council of State from his position is scheduled for February 2018. These announcements should be of interest to Cubans of both genders, but not just a passing interest out of curiosity, as if viewing situation abroad. We are...

Cuba became in a country transmitter of emigrations since almost sixty years. At that time the Cuban Adjustment Law did not exist, neither the“dry feet-wet feet” decree, nor the 20 thousands United States visas for Cubans, neither the parole program for doctors. However, many Cubans wanted and want to leave. When there is an escape of intelligence, souls and hearts, something is wrong and hurts intelligence, souls and hearts. Nobody escapes from where...

Time passes, although everything seems immovable in Cuba. The year 2016 terminates, and we get ready to cross the new year’s threshold between the uncertainty and the hope. The way to measure time is a human resource to maintain the rhythms of our unique and unrepeatablelives. This vital rhythm moves between the past and the future, between the evaluation of what was lived and the expectations about what will come. For Cuba a new time is opened in...

“In the beginning it was the Word…” (John 1, 1). So says the beginning of Saint John’s Gospel. Also we remember our greatest poet Dulce María Loynaz who wielded that versicle to express her opinion in relation to the old philosophical debate of what came first: the word or the action. The word is the distinctive and exclusive expression of the human condition. When there are censured words in acountry, something is hurt in its humanity. When...

Editorial 52. July Aug. Convivencia Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.es   REFORMS ARE BEING SLOW AND SUPERFICIAL. ECONOMIC CRISIS IN CUBA IS DEEPENING.   This new economic crisis is described by the main authorities in the country. The Minister of Economy and Planning in Cuba, Mr. Marino Murillo has said at the National Assembly on the 8th of July:   “Since December we have been facing financial limitations and restrictions mainly due...

A democracy with no surnames and a national dialogue including all of us         Latin America is changing. The European Union is changing out of its borders and towards the others. The United States is changing inside and outside. People are expressing themselves and protesting. Governments are changing and alternating. The correlation of forces is changing and the world goes on. Cuba is in fashion. Certain chancellor has even spoken about “complicity”...

OBAMA IN CUBA: WHAT CHANGES COME WILL DEPEND UPON THE CUBAN PEOPLE   A new stage is opening to Cuba and the United States. President Barack Obama visit to Cuba has been an unmistakable sign.   “I have come here to bury the last remnant of the Cold War in the Americas”- said the president of the United States. And for his part he has done his best to move forward. The official Cuban press has not finished the chapter and has reacted with...