Internet is 40 years old. No one could have imagined in the distant December of 1969 when the first steps for this giant international net were taken, that four decades later it would be the most powerful instrument for communication and easy to use.
The connexions between the computers in the Universities of Los Angeles, Stanford, Utah and California, in Saint Barbra and one Centre of investigation for the Defence went immediately beyond the threshold of the investigation and the Defence. The student world, the university young people, the enterprises, the State institutions and the complex fabric of the civil society took immediate control of this efficient, simple, close, personalized and global tool for work.
To think about the future of Cuba, to think about it and to arrange it; to arrange it and to start to build it from now all of us together, is an urgency which becomes more and more present and last chance. Everything that is and acts for the foresight of the future is strength for Cuba. Everything that is petrified in the past is weakness and mummifies the present.
That is why we will grant a smaller space to the fair complaint and the necessary denouncing, because we wish to go forward in the vision of the future. This time we wish to invite all Cubans from the only nation, the ones from the Island and the ones from the exile, to meditate about one of the irreplaceable mainstays of democracy: the institutions.
Fifty years ago Cuba stopped being a country which receives immigrants and turned into a nation on the run. It doesn’t matter so much if the exile is rough or velvet. It doesn’t matter if persons leave through a program of refugees or undertake a “revolutionary mission”. What almost everybody wants is to get out.
Cuba is a nation which is endlessly bleeding. The uprootment is maybe the most visible result of the 50 years of totalitarian government. The escape is the attitude, the method and the “solution” for hundreds of thousand Cubans.
We dare say that the unstoppable ethnic bleeding is one of the most harmful tragedies that Cuba has faced.
To become a citizen (man or woman) is an achievement of the conscience and the will. It is a right and a duty. It’s the foundation of cohabitation and politics of our time.
In times of slavery there were owners and slaves. During feudalism there were lords and servants from the glebe. During absolute monarquies, there were kings and subjects. When the world left behind these relationships of subordination and exploitation among persons, the Republics emerged. Republic comes from “res-pública”, that is, people’s thing, in which all persons are equal before the law. The “cívitas” emerged, that is, the city of all citizens, equal before the law. And the relationships of subordination of some to others became out of the good and the law.
The nations have been organized since then, according to a social contract in which the citizens choose other citizens for a certain time and for a specific purpose: to serve the nation and administrate its progress and also to guarantee an ethical and legal framework which guarantee all rights of all persons so that they can carry out all their duties.
