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and project of coexistence to take root depends on reinventing citizens, trying to encourage their political participation, which has been dead in Cuba for more than 60 years. Only then can we reinvent the nation from its very roots. It is quite encouraging to see that myriad projects in Cuba take citizens as a civic and political telos, and not a historical one. This last point is evidence of enormous progress, in terms of modernity. When man sees himself as unique and measures himself against history, this results in disasters, like when he does so with God. If this idea takes root, we will have moved extremely forward on the road to legitimation, after our new legitimacy is solidly established. Any participation must come from people functioning as citizens. This does not imply a specific political commitment. There can be no coexistence without contrasting thoughts; if the citizenry is not reinvented, coexistence is just as impossible. What is foremost and primary here is that it be citizens who define the future, before organization or interest groups. We always have a tendency to corporatize the State the moment the citizenry snoozes. To start here is strategic for Cuba, and for the present. So, let’s open, broaden and strengthen this first circle of legitimation with enlightened and educated Cubans. This is the first necessary step and it is on this that the second circle of strategic legitimation depends: invite the participation of an enlightened citizenry. How does coexistence get articulated between the first and second circles? Creating a network of strategic intelligence that deposits ideas, information and values into a common bank filled with proposals, and encourages deliberative democracy in our pluralistic society. Along with an enlightened citizenry, deliberative democracy is the best guarantee for a civic and political coexistence that could impact and stimulate cultural coexistence as a foundation for our nation. Civic and political understanding among those who are different can neutralize fundamentalist conflicts about values and worldviews.In order for this to happen, we must exile the idea of a specific, closed group defining and deciding the nation’s direction. This seems to be happening right now, in a more or less ‘light’ version, that of the historic alliance between the sword (the military) and the cross (the Church). This forging of politics with a counter-reformation-like alliance is lethal in highly complex, plural and diverse societies like the one in Cuba. This is why it is clear that the success of a coexistence project in Cuba depends on people participating more as citizens than as a specific political group. At this moment of re-found [