{"id":198746,"date":"2019-05-15T10:54:41","date_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:54:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=198746"},"modified":"2019-05-15T10:54:41","modified_gmt":"2019-05-15T14:54:41","slug":"comply-with-the-constitution-and-give-back-the-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/cuba\/comply-with-the-constitution-and-give-back-the-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Comply with the Constitution and give back the Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"

I took some time to reflect on the regrettable events that took place during the 12th edition of the Day against Homophobia. I stop at this moment with the conviction that it\u2019s an unfinished debate.<\/span><\/p>\n

I founded the Cuban Days against Homophobia when the idea that all activism in relation to sexual rights is political had already matured in me; therefore, it will always be crisscrossed by specific political values \u200b\u200band ideologies. Whoever doesn\u2019t situate himself from this angle is naive or intends to manipulate the complex reality.<\/span><\/p>\n

No ideological struggle is free of contradictions and the complex process of building political consensus (if that is possible among Cubans) always has advances and setbacks.<\/span><\/p>\n

The march not authorized by the government on May 11 was not only due to suspension by the State\/Party of the traditional conga included in the programs of the Cuban Days against Homophobia.<\/span><\/p>\n

The antecedents and the circumstances I perceive are:<\/span><\/p>\n

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  1. Sole vertical dialogue and legitimacy of the CENESEX leadership by the State\/Party in the fight against homophobia.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    State\/Party\u2019s obsessive and pernicious fear of horizontal leadership and the emergence of LGBT groups within civil society collide with citizens\u2019 gradual awareness about sexual rights as human rights. The training of activists by CENESEX and the Cuban Days against Homophobia have generated a critical mass of activists that overflows the institutional spaces and challenges the doctrines of control of thought and action that are generated from there. There are also many good people who are activists without having been linked to any institution.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Since a group of activists introduced the Yogyakarta Principles in 2007, their use has been extended to advocate non-discriminatory policies based on sexual orientation and gender identity, in accordance with international human rights law. The heterogeneity of these groups includes many ideological positions that fluctuate between radical Marxists, bourgeois social democrats, anarchists and neoliberals and neo-annexationists.<\/span><\/p>\n

    The usual mercenaries who are at the service of any ideology also appear. For the monochrome vision of the State\/Party and its institutions these people are nothing but counterrevolutionary and any initiative that comes from them is criminalized, in the name of national unity. It\u2019s not taken into account that except for the neoliberals, the annexationists and the mercenaries, there are many progressive people who would advance, from organized civil society, the public anti-discriminatory policies.<\/span><\/p>\n

    Arbitrary arrests, violent repression, censorship and discredit are neither revolutionary nor adhere to Mart\u00ed\u2019s principles of a Republic, as has been endorsed in the recent Constitution.<\/span><\/p>\n