{"id":230374,"date":"2020-11-14T10:50:32","date_gmt":"2020-11-14T15:50:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/?p=230374"},"modified":"2020-11-14T10:50:32","modified_gmt":"2020-11-14T15:50:32","slug":"democracy-has-to-be-an-obsession","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oncubanews.com\/en\/opinion\/columns\/vox-populi\/democracy-has-to-be-an-obsession\/","title":{"rendered":"Democracy has to be an obsession"},"content":{"rendered":"

The presidential elections in the United States of America don\u2019t decide only who will be the head of state of that nation. A great many countries await the results of this electoral process to draw up policies, write speeches, change strategies, rethink tactics and imagine new diplomatic courses.<\/span><\/p>\n

In Cuba, tension can be touched with one\u2019s fingertips. Pandemic, ordering task, shortages, dollar stores, elections in the United States. It\u2019s a powerful cocktail that can knock out anyone and that is drunk here daily, from dawn to dawn.<\/span><\/p>\n

Within the country the extremes that exist in all parts of the world are replicated. Right-wing conservatives, democratic socialists, those who don\u2019t care whichever, centrists who don\u2019t want fascism, or dehumanizing capitalism, but neither do they want totalitarianism.<\/span><\/p>\n

Voters for Trump in the United States have their counterpart in Cuba, as do voters for Biden. What is expected of the winning candidate, in his relationship with Cuba, is a range of possibilities that separates positions and economic, social and political projects in Miami and in Havana.<\/span><\/p>\n

But I am more interested in what doesn\u2019t or shouldn\u2019t depend within Cuba, on the presidential elections in the United States of America.<\/span><\/p>\n

To make the sovereign nation proposal outlined in the <\/span>2019 Constitution<\/span><\/a> a reality, it is necessary that our efforts be focused on the development of the country, and here I\u2019m not only talking about the economy or trade or finance, because I don\u2019t contemplate any possible development without democracy and without solid and reliable institutions.<\/span><\/p>\n

After the discussion process by which the Constitutional Project that resulted in the 2019 Constitution, it would seem that the political consensus in Cuba is clear, but it seems misleading to me that almost 80 percent of the population with electoral rights voted yes to the new Magna Carta.<\/span><\/p>\n

Nueva Constituci\u00f3n, ratificada por el 86,8 por ciento de los votantes<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n