Inefficiency and exclusion are the signs of what has to be changed in Cuba. It’s not only about economic inefficiency and exclusion but political, cultural, organizational and even sports inefficiency and exclusion. All of them lead to, and have their root cause in the inefficiency and the anthropological erosion which is the damage caused to the human person and prevents his full and happy development. It is, above all, a spiritual inefficiency....

Four hundred years ago three men representatives of the Creole stratum of the Island picked up from the sea, after the storm, a small and brown image of Mary, Jesus of Nazareth’s mother. That was the symbol of our domestic encounter between three cultures: two Indians, a black slave and an icon of the Christian religion which is the religious matrix of our identity.  The storm was the proof that no transculturation takes place over the serene...

Editorial 27. May-Jun-2012 Fear of change always paralyses us. One of those fears is the supposed lack of projects and protagonists for the transition and the future in Cuba. Very often the authorities and some international observers whose interest is that nothing should change in Cuba argue that changes are necessary but the problem is that there are not viable projects or serious actors who can lead them; this is one of the traps that obstruct...

THE POPE’S VISIT TO CUBA: EXPECTATIONS AND POSSIBILITIES. The Catholic Church and the official press have announced that His Holiness the Pope Benedict XVI “is considering visiting Mexico and Cuba during the spring of the year 2012”. At the same time, the spokesman of the Holy See has declared that the State Department of the Supreme Pontiff has told the Papal Nuncios in each one of these countries to inform the respective ecclesiastical and civilian...

Editorial 23. September- October 2011 Convivencia Magazine THE NEW COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES AT THE SERVICE OF CIVIL SOCIETY. To go on thinking of the future of Cuba is “a duty and an agony”, as Martí used to say. Keeping such duty with hope, we wish to suggest the need to think how a society of information should be and how the use of media should be in a country like ours and what we can do in the present and in the future in order to build from...

EDITORIAL 21 FREEDOM AND FRATERNITY FOR CUBA. “The Greek Democracy had conquered for the citizen the right to participate in public life. Modern democracy inverts the relation: the State loses the right to intervene in the private life of citizens”. Octavio Paz. To change but not to change the essence: This could be the diagnosis of what is happening in Cuba. To regret in the middle of the disappointment and the indifference or to bring the future...

EDITORIAL 20. SOMETHING NEW FOR CUBA: CIVIL SOCIETY’S PRIMACY. Cuba experienced during the 20th century three ways of organization as a nation: colonialism in which the primacy of another nation deprives the colony of its sovereignty; capitalism in which market outweighs the State and the civil society; and this model of socialism in which the State imposes itself in a totalitarian way over market and over civil society. The injustices that these...

EDITORIAL 19 ECONOMY WITH FREEDOM AND RESPONSIBILITY. Cuba finds itself in a middle of a dilemma. Structural changes are needed and the fear of change paralyzes everything. Cuba is in a middle of a terminal economic crisis and it doesn’t want to open up itself to political changes. There is a reluctance to transfer the power even if the price for Cuba is not to have and not to be. Cuba is in labor and it does not know for sure what it’s going to give...

The human rights and the civic duties are the basis and the measuring stick to promote and evaluate the pacific and prosperous cohabitation of the nations. This is a conviction that has grown throughout the history of humankind and reached its highest degree with the adoption of the Universal Declaration on Human Rights by the United Nations Organization on the tenth of December 1948. Cuba was then the country that had the honour to submit the Declaration...

Cuba is going through one of the tensest moments of its recent history; without economy, without a viable political project on the part of the ones who hold power and with a society which is increasingly discouraged. It’s not an apocalyptic perspective but reality. It’s the new “special period” though it has not been officially called that way. There is a difference with the crisis of the 90’s. In that crisis there was a lot of money in national currency...