Toward a New Constitution

Toward a New Constitution / Rafael Leon Rodriguez
Posted on April 12, 2014

A group of Cubans in Cuba and its diaspora agreed to promote a road map
for a constitutional consensus. Organizations and public figures from
different generations, of all ideologies, religious beliefs and
interests, we believe it is good that, firstly, we agree as to the type
of constitution we want to establish or take as a reference for the
creation of a new constitution, in accord with our time and reality.

The managing group making this project viable consists of Rogelio
Travieso Pérez, Rafael León Rodríguez, Manuel Cuesta Morúa, Fernando
Palacio Mogar, Eroisis González Suárez, Veizant Voloi González, Wilfredo
Vallín Almeida and Rosa María Rodríguez Torrado.

We want to escape from the vicious and corrupt circle of an elite that
for decades has set the course of our country regardless of the opinion
of its citizens. The constitutional road map arises also to bring down
the perverse myth that was born with the ruling political model, in
which Cuba is only a part of his children: extending one hand to take
money from its emigrants and with the other pushing them away and
separating them from an environment to which they rightfully belong. So
for this reason we will work in common to seek a consensus and legal and
constitutional order that emanates from citizens, from their diversity,
place of residence and plurality.

Thousands of Cubans have already signed the call for a constituent
assembly in Cuba and we continue to call on all our compatriots,
wherever they are or reside, to join us in this effort, for arm
ourselves with a new shield of civilized coexistence. In this
undertaking we invite Cubans to offer their ideas about how to finally
achieve a Cuba for all within in the law.

In order to promote these efforts, compatriots living abroad have
created the site http://consensoconstitucional.com/ in which there is an
update on this project.

We are drawing up a methodology in which we encourage Cubans interested
in participating to submit papers in which they lay out, in about ten
points, the reasons why they defend one or another constitutional
proposal as a starting point for change in the "law of laws" in order to
lead us toward the democratization of our nation.

This coming May, Cubans inside and outside of Cuba will begin to hold
meetings in which we will debate ideas about this process of promoting
consensus. Right now, we are working for the creating of "initiative
tables" on the island and this design is just the start of a long road
to justice, equity and a state of rights for all Cubans.

10 April 2014

Source: Toward a New Constitution / Rafael Leon Rodriguez | Translating
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