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party Arco Progresista and Coordinator
of the Platform New Country *. There is
neither a short way nor a flat path for
Afro-Más. Its journey won´t definitively
be a walk in a park. The legacy of racial
discrimination stemming from slavery
has finally dropped its veil to show its
ugly and retrograde face after being
concealed by the powers that be for a
long time. And we know that among the
first line of victims nobody has suffered
as much as the LGBTI community of
African descent. Currently Afro-Más
can only count on its own upright programs and its great human resources,
along with the alliances forged with
other activist groups and the still incipient awareness of those to whom its
activism is aimed.

Afro-Más will needs to strengthen ties
with international organizations devoted
to defend the LGBTI communities and
with all those who are struggling to
conquer more civilized spaces where no
power can prevail over the respect for
social justice and human rights. This
project can and should become a new
window open to the world in order to
show the huge difficulties of carrying
out its mission in the complex circumstances of our country, and to bear
witness of the fact that such difficulties
do not incline the Cubans to give up on
the eve. Thanks to Afro-Más, the gap
opens up and the commitment is established. The rest is a matter of time.

* See the editorial of the previous issue
of this very magazine.

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