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That is why this collapse facilitates two
important developments on the progressive
Cuban agenda: the emergence of citizens’
voices and a conversation about the institutionalization of Cuba’s social, cultural and
political pluralism, which assumes profound, constitutional changes aimed at
guaranteeing freedoms. This is a way to get

beyond the schizophrenia between the narrative of progressivism and the chronic
absence of progressive practices. This is
how Cuba can be reconstructed, with inclusion and social wellbeing, and articulate for
itself a new gaze from the vantage point of
a democratic, Latin American left.

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