It seems obvious that you can\u2019t look ahead without noticing where you are, and what is around you. In the Cuban case, this exploration is equivalent, as Rub\u00e9n Mat\u00ednez Villena would say, to an \u201cexercise of brave discipline\u201d to overcome the avalanche of perorations, opinions and counter-opinions that saturate the environment, and obscure the process of political change underway, in itself complicated.<\/p>\n
Now that the 8th Party Congress is less than eight months away, it is worth analyzing some of the ideas that have inspired the policy of reforms, a decade later. Instead of emulating with the accumulation of recommendations to the government that circulate in the networks, some very reasonable, this brief analysis is aimed at examining the real policy on its own terms, to appreciate how far it has come from today\u2019s perspective, to not only count the pending agreements, but to estimate to what extent it has been consistent with its logic, and how it is explained.<\/p>\n