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the idea that a constitution that guarantees all Cubans the ideals that the nation always aspired to is
once again taking shape. For many, the 1940 Constitution still serves as a model.
Of course, the world turns and things change
whether we want them to or not. As the most universal of Cubans once said, this story’s ending
will be that “just rights requested intelligently
will have to prevail, without violence; that the
only efficient way to improve present social ills

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naturally and effectively is to improve education
and ardently defend the ennobling and vital rights
contained in what we generally call freedom.”
* Panel. “Cuba: Memory of Democracy”
(LASA). The author was n