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ing means to unmask the intentions of
social exclusion hiding behind politics.
It is time to sustain positive options of
change in favor of the population, to
make a real opening without discriminatory limitations. Even a political, constitutional opening is possible, since the
greatest barrier is the hegemony of a
single party. These cultural facts could
transcend as the people’s message, in
virtue of the participation of people in
the debate of common themes, as the
voice of society itself.

There is no meeting or assembly on
artistic culture in which the Communist
Party does not discharge its hostility and
misunderstanding of the main issues of
freedom of expression and assembly
and association, but if culture is the
vanguard of the revolution, then Cuba
has to open itself culturally to the world,
without conditions or misgivings. It
would be fascinating to show how we
are, what we think and what we want,
without anyone telling us what to do or
say.

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