Editorial 49. Jan-Feb 2016 Convivencia Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.es   CUBA CERTAINLY CAN CHANGE AND MUST CHANGE   The year 2016 has begun and a significant number of Cubans feel a fusion of despair, uncertainty and the wish to leave this place. It’s logical; it’s normal. Time goes by, life is short and it’s only one. The world changes and Cuba remains the same… or worse.   The cost of living goes steadily up. Shortage in general...

Editorial 48. Nov-Dec 2015 Convivencia Magazine www.convivenciacuba.es   ONE YEAR AFTER THE SEVENTEENTH OF DECEMBER: ASSESSMENT AND NATIONAL RESPONSIBILITY   The seventeenth of December 2014 undoubtedly opened a new scenario, a new stage in the recent history of Cuba: it was the announcement of the process of re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the governments of Cuba and the United States. Both heads of States thanked the mediation...

A NEW ELECTORAL LAW COMING FROM THE CITIZENHIP   In a meeting held by the Communist Party Cuban authorities have announced that a new electoral law will be drawn up in Cuba. With this project the announced changes would go from the economical topic to the political field. We Cuban citizens who are the sovereign people should not wait passively for the single-party proposal. The exercise of citizens’ sovereignty demands to take the initiative,...

A new foreign policy toward Cuba is being designed in the United States and Europe. This is a new scenario which is already a fait accompli whatever the results may be. No process of transition is linear or perfect. Politics is the art of the possible, the art of sizing up and overcoming mistakes. Human matters are not ideal and reality, as it is, hard and persistent, demands challenges and moves from us; it demands us to be flexible, creative and...

A RANGE OF OPPORTUNITIES FOR FOREIGNERS… WHAT OPPORTUNITIES FOR CUBANS?   The Range of Investment Opportunities for foreigners has been presented at the International Havana fair. The government offers the foreign capital practically the main areas of the Country’s economy: industry, agriculture, medicine production, tourism and computer services.   Meanwhile foreigners value those opportunities offered all over the country and in almost...

THE ROAD TO PEACE IN CUBA: TO EDUCATE FOR PACIFIC SOLUTION TO CONFLICTS.   There are two ways to solve conflicts and differences inherent to human condition: violence and pacific methods. Universal conscience goes, in spite of everything, toward pacific solution of confrontations, even when authoritarian ones, fanatics and extremists who have survived an era already gone, try to take advantage of the supposed peace weakness to impose ideologies,...

Here are some indicators that show this civic growth:   Chieftainship still exists but we recognize that it is getting out of fashion and it is counterproductive. Moderation in personal leading roles is finding a balance. Team work is spreading as an indispensable option. The need for common points to hold talks with national and international interlocutors is already a task that has been set in motion.   One thing that corroborates the...

Editorial 39. May-June-2014 Convivencia Magazine. www.convivenciacuba.es   THE LAW OF FOREIGN INVESTMENT IN CUBA: ONE SWALLOW DOES NOT MAKE A SUMMER.   The former Law of Foreign Investment dates from 1995; it was passed in the middle of the “special period” and it was one of the “measures” to try to get out of the crisis caused by the collapse of the USSR the subsidy of which made the Cuban economy survive for more than 30 years. That law which...

Every democratic government has a limited time to show, trough its administration, results that improve the life quality of citizens. The Cuban government headed by General Raúl Castro (2006-20014) has had eight years to achieve this aim. However, reality shows us that the everyday life of the Cuban people is harder and more expensive with more shortages and poverty. The slow and superficial reforms are not enough even to alleviate the everyday struggle...

The European Union established, on December 2nd 1996, a common stand regarding its relations with Cuba. It has been, in practice, the least common of stands of the European Union regarding any country in the world. The essential thing of the contents of the Common Stand, it’s good to remember, is one purpose with two constituents, a political one and an economic one “as well”: “to promote the process of transition to a pluralist democracy and the...