period( 1902-58), but the benchmark for our action is the legislative work and the legal institutions, primarily the joint effort that led to the Constitution of 1940 and provided its subsequent complementary laws. They were true examples for its time and even the Castroit regime resorts to them whenever it needs to validate some of its current changes. Any change seeking to eliminate the economic and political stagnation caused by the dictatorship always leads to recognize both the current international practices and the Cuban advanced legislation prior to 1959. It was self-evidenced in the recent Party Congress. One delegate asserted that the private property has a positive impact if it is conceived with a social function. He added that contemporary capitalism and the Constitution of 1940 encompass such functions. But it is also selfevidence that the changes couldn ´ t be partial. After decades of excessive suspicions, the current developments are perceived only as escapism. The Immigration Reform Act( 2012) did not generate freedom of movement, but further stimulus to emigration; the regulations for buying and selling homes did not rescue the sense of ownership, but is actually financing the immigration as escape route. The Party Congress made it clear that the Castro administration has spent ten years without achieving its stated main priority: the economic improvement and the boost in food production. Many measures have been implemented, but the citizens are still missing in the framework. # Otro18 holds that broad participation is inextricably linked to collective commitment. The failure on the part of all inspires much more to move forward that the success on the part of one. In the social processes, it ´ s is only smart what is jointly conceived. It is so easy to understand, but it becomes a wall difficult to overcome by to those who are afraid of losing their narcissists leading roles. Hence # Otro18 also conceives an alternative to dialogue with both the skeptical sectors within the opposition and the political regime that prefers to be criminal than civic. Most actors taking part in the campaign for an electoral law ensuring massive and committed participation in the polls welcome the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the United States and Cuba because it ´ s a role model, not because we are deluded optimists or true believers in such event as a mission fulfilled in the best possible way. The pursuit of excellence and ideals belongs to the world of fantasy; our paradigm balances the notion of process and the actions oriented towards results. In the Central Report to the Party Congress, Raúl Castro wrote that the changes ready to be implemented by the announced new constitution will be endorsed by the people in a referendum. Presumably voting yes would ratify the changes and voting no would force to redraft the constitutional text. Both # Otro18 and the civil society must make people understand how important is the vote for sending the citizens ´ message of rejection against the powers that be. The victory in the referendum would be a crucial step in the right direction to nullify the article of the constitution that imposes the hegemony of the Communist Party over the rest of the society( Article 5) and thusly makes unenforceable the article stating that the sovereignty resides in the people( Arti-
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