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a contrast, each appropriate legal action to
build a democratic order is shown by the
opposite legal order of the current regimen.
Gonzalez Arenas argues the lock of citizen
participation since the earliest stages after
the revolutionary triumph, along with the
elimination of the republican institutions
which remained in the Fundamental Law of
1959, for instance the Constitutional Court.
He also focuses in the social consequences
of such an institutional neglect and in the
consolidation of an abnormal state by the
1976 Constitution and the sequence of laws
immediately passed in order to definitely
establish the state of affairs already implemented in the everyday life with Fidel Castro as the only real political power. This
autocratic mood of the legal order prevents
that multiple and diverse political and social
actors freely reach basic agreements, as Eroisis Gonzalez Suarez, activist of the Women's Platform Nuevo País, stated in his article on independent civil society, political
parties and citizen participation.

The author claims that the independent civil
society in Cuba has been developing rapidly
and turned into a crucial actor in pursuit of
freedom. Hence it is necessary to structure it
to channel individual wills, to suggest alternatives to the powers that be, and to formalize the citizen preferences that will undermine and put an end the one-party regime. It
is absolutely necessary to enable the democratic coexistence of all political movements, including the political parties ArcoProgresista, Solidaridad Liberal Cubano
(PSLC), Liberal de Cuba (PLC) and others
that could play key roles in shaping the political Cuban physiognomy on the basis of
the due correspondence between the programmatic aspirations of citizens and the
institutional spheres of the State.
Dr. Juan Antonio Alvarado Ramos
Editor-in-Chief

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