There have been already many and varied pronouncements about this topic of the exercise of citizen sovereignty and the election and the duration of public servers. One of the most interesting proposals has been the one made by the Editorial of the fraternal magazine “Espacio Laical” in which they propose, among other aspects, direct, secret and free elections of the president of the Nation and the participation of persons who are not members of the...
“Friendship is the greatest of the civic goods because if there is friendship the civil confrontations will be reduced to the minimum” (Aristotle: “The Nicomacheme Ethics”. Book IX, 1170) “Convivencia” magazine is going to be four years old. Its name (living together) is a need and a proposal. But we don’t want to speak about us. We want to continue thinking and suggesting things for the present and for the future of Cuba always with our feet...
“You are and should be the protagonists of your own personal and national history” (John Paul II, Cuba 1998) The two visits by the Supreme Pontiffs of the Catholic Church are landmarks that show a step forward taken by Cuba civil society. Cuba has changed and not only and not always for the worse. Our opinion is that between both apostolic visits there is a process that goes forward: the process of the...
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...
EL PROYECTO Y LA REVISTA CONVIVENCIA (2007) El día 21 de marzo de 2007, el nuevo obispo de Pinar del Río decidió la extinción del Centro de Formación Cívica y Religiosa (CFCR) y la intervención de la revista Vitral en reunión efectuada en el Obispado de Pinar del Río con el equipo diocesano del Centro. En esa reunión se acordó colocar en la próxima revista Vitral (www.vitral.org) , No. 78, la siguiente nota que saldría con fecha 8 de abril de 2007,...
Dagoberto Valdés Hernández Curriculum vitae Nació en la provincia de Pinar del Río, Cuba, el 4 de agosto de 1955. Tiene tres hijos: Dagoberto, Javier y Ana Isabel. Laico e intelectual católico. En 1974, al terminar sus estudios medios, quiso estudiar Sociología pero le fue negado por ser católico. En ese tiempo en Cuba los creyentes sólo podían estudiar carreras científicas o técnicas. Graduado de Ingeniero Agrónomo por la Universidad de Pinar del...
Curriculum vitae Karina D’ Torner nace en Ciudad de la Habana el 14 de junio de 1974. Comienza estudios de música en el conservatorio “Manuel Saumell” en 1982 cursando la especialidad de piano. … Editorial 30: MULTIPARTY SYSTEM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSIONLeer más »
Por Jesuhadín Pérez Facultad de Derecho. Un alumno analiza con su profesor consultante las razones de su reprobación. El educador justifica la suspensión así: … sus respuestas son correctas. Usted conoce lo que le preguntamos, pero utiliza –en sus argumentos– siglas, en vez de los nombres completos de los organismos y organizaciones mencionadas. … Editorial 30: MULTIPARTY SYSTEM AND FREEDOM OF EXPRESSIONLeer más »