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will not be displaced. It is they who
have positioned Afro-descendants,
women, peasants, and homosexuals as
permanently inferior.
This economic empowerment is needed
urgently, so there can be spaces, conditions, and legal-structural guidelines for
Cuban to be able to reveal their enormous creative and productive potential.
Distinctions and privileges aside, Cubans should be economic subjects, selfsufficient, and legally backed, so that
the ideas of equality and the fair redistribution of wealth be based upon that
economic freedom, and a solid middle
class, far from the effects of harmful,
messianic Statism. Cuba needs to promote more intense technological empowerment, to face the tremendous
backwardness that plagues us.
The enormous digital divide thataffects
a very broad part of the population is a
tremendous obstacle to modernizing
Cuban society.

We have accepted the enormous challenge of connecting with communities
and citizens to activate mechanisms and
methodologies that can turn Cubans,
who have heretofore been hopeless victims, into protagonists of their own destiny and of the essential transformations
that need to convert Cuba in to a true
State of Law.
Cuba’s truth should be revealed to the
world. The democrats of our continent
should commit themselves to the cause
of transformation and back the efforts of
those of us in Cuba face obstacles and
repression. With their significant solidarity, we might be able to turn into
past history our sad experience with
America’s last dictatorship.

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