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have an enormous influence on the facing of the
inequalities that darken the Cuban social panorama, as well as on the development of each individual’s ability to exercise and defend his or her
own rights.
Above all, what is most important is the concept
of empowerment, which from a political point of
view entirely contradicts the paternalistic-corporative hegemony to which we are accustomed.
From a sociological point of view, it totally contradicts marginalization, un \