Finally, who are we all? José Martí and the democratic republic in Cuba
In February 1905 the statue of José Martí, which to this day presides over Havana’s Parque Central, was placed. A...
The constitutional homeland. Céspedes, Guáimaro and democracy in Cuba
In “Elpidio Valdés se casa” (Elpidio Valdés gets married; Juan Padrón, Tulio Raggi and Mario Rivas, 1991) the mambí Colonel...
Homeland. Passion and democracy of national symbols in Cuba
In 2016 the magazine Revolución y Cultura (RyC) ―then directed by Luisa Campuzano and by an Advisory Council composed of...
Fraternity, that ghost. The Cuban Republic in José Martí
The Ode to Joy, by Friedrich von Schiller, was first published in 1786. It reads: “Joy, thou beauteous godly lightning,...
Dignity is not decided by plebiscite
The 1976 Constitution, with its reforms, regulated marriage as the "voluntarily concerted union of a man and a woman." The...
Will Cubans residing abroad be able to vote in the constitutional referendum?
Last August, Ernesto Soberón, director of Consular Affairs and Cuban Residents Abroad (DACRE) of the Cuban Foreign Ministry answered the...
