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"Homoparental Families and their Acknowledgment in Colombia" which addresses the
issue from the perspective of praising the
evolution of the rights of LGBTQ people as
the banner of social progress of the country.
The section "Culture and identity" presents
three works: "Cuba-USA: How the Wall
was Brought Down," Veronica Vega; " Cuban Art on Stage: “The President Steals but
Offers Opportunities” by José Clemente
Martinez Gascon; and interview "Everyday
Nudity and Misapplied Artistic Policies,"
Marcia Cairo. The first one takes as its starting point the restoration of diplomatic relations between Cuba and the United States to
examine its impact on the Cuban people.
Regarding the line of ideological education
of the younger generation on the basis of the
confrontation with the American enemy, the
conclusion that this virus, inoculated into the
younger generation, had the counterproductive effect of both a resounding skepticism toward the system in Cuba and the bulk
of the young people dazzled by the North.
The wall has last over half a century, but it
must not be torn down like Berlin´s, since it
was made of lies and jokes. Therefore, it
will immediately collapse. Gascon refers to
some cultural events in Cuba, such as the
XII Biennial of Havana, in order to demonstrate how Cuban art is ahead of political
forecasts with a remarkable display of contemporaneity. Finally, Marcia Cairo talks
with the young photographer Rody Enriquez
Alonso about the varied subjects of his visual work, among them nudes and eroticism.
This edition includes a battery of six luxury
descriptive-analytical articles on the key
solution not only to the Cuban problem, but
the most diverse political orders of the

world: democracy. Historian and political
scientist Manuel Cuesta Morúa examines
how to dismantle the shielding plates provided by the Cuban Constitution to the political system. His # Otro18 initiative is aimed
towards the general elections in 2018, considered breakpoint of the Castro regime because of the transfer of power from Raúl
Castro to another figure of the ruling elite.
The initiative involves a constitutional reform bill in two directions: involving most
of the civil society, in the horizontal dimension of democracy, and opening the political
game with the concrete participation of citizens through legal proposals on elections
and associations, including political parties.
As leader of this strategic approach, the author analyzes the so-called shielding articles
of the Cuban Constitution, namely those that
establish "the basic issue of sovereignty"
(Article 3), the primacy of the Communist
Party (Article 5) and the constitutional reform procedure (Article 137). Cuesta Morúa
explains why shielding the system with them
prevents the democratic order and patterns
of change that would pave the way for the
full exercise of popular sovereignty. Without
the essential plurality, the deliberation and
reconstruction of the constitutional order by
the citizens is unconceivable and it creates a
closed State power without legitimacy. The
minimal agenda of this initiative includes
mastering the techniques and more rigorous
tools of deliberative democracy in order to
generalize the process in late 2016 or early
2017 with a consultative civic referendum
focused in a new electoral law. It would
ensure three basic demands: the plurality of
the political society, the competitiveness
within the political system, and the direct

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