Toward a New Constitution

Toward a New Constitution / Rosa Maria Rodriguez
Posted on August 16, 2014

A group of Cubans in Cuba and its diaspora agreed to promote a roadmap
for a constitutional consensus. Organizations and public figures from
different generations, all ideologies, religious creeds and interests,
we believe it's good that, first, we agree on what kind of constitution
we want that is established and take it as a reference for the new
constitution, according to our time and reality.

The management group of this project is made up 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 end the vicious and corrupt circle of the elite which, for
decades, has set the course of our country without taking into
consideration the opinions of its citizens. The constitutional road map
has also been created to bring down the perverse myth born with the
ruling political model, in which Cuba is only a part of its children:
that extends a hand to take money from emigrants and with the other hand
pushed them away and separates them from the environment to which, by
right, they belong.

Therefore, we are working together to seek a consensus and
constitutional and legal order emanating from the citizens, their
diversity, their place of residence and their plurality.

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

To promote this effort, compatriots abroad created the site
consensoconstitutional.com, where there is an update on this project.

We drafted a methodology in which we encourage Cubans interested in
participating are invited to submit papers in which they argue, in about
ten points, the reasons why they defend this or that constitutional
proposal as a point of departure toward changing the law of laws as we
embark on the democratization of our nation.

In May 2014, Cubans inside and outside of Cuba will begin to hold
meetings in which we will discuss ideas about the process of promoting
consensus. Right now, we are waking to create initiative discussion
groups on the island and this design is just the beginning of a long
road to justice, equity and the rule of law for all Cubans.

10 April 2014

Source: Toward a New Constitution / Rosa Maria Rodriguez | Translating
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