Lorenzo Cañizares
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El Mensaje de Paya... - 2005/06/26 03:59
El Mensaje de Paya al congreso y pueblo norteamaericano
Paya y sus comapañeros, en mi opinion, han propuesto un manuscrito estupendo. Entre sus puntos principales esta que que nuestra lucha sea netamente cubana evitando derramiento de sangre de nuestra gente, que la lucha por la justicia social no es contradictoria con el desarrollo y crecimiento economico. ¿Es mas podemos preguntar que justicia social puede existir si vamos a repartir pobreza? La liberacion de todos los presos politicos. Y sobre todo el no permitir interferencia extranjera en nuestros asuntos. Solidaridad Si, Hegemonia No!
MESSAGE TO THE AMERICAN PEOPLE AND CONGRESS
The Cuban people should be and will be the main actor in the changes that should take place among Cubans and peacefully. But international solidarity has contributed to the peaceful changes in many cases. Our message to the United States of America is friendship. The American society should know efforts being made inside Cuba to accomplish those changes without violence and should offer their moral support to the Cuban people.
The Varela Project is a civic initiative born in Cuba and carried out by Cubans citizens themselves. It tries to give voice to Cubans in a Referendum so that they can freely decide if they want or not that their basic rights be granted and guaranteed. The Varela Project is based in several articles of current Constitution, and tries to advance, from within the law, towards better laws that build and enforce the Rule of Law.
The Varela Project calls for a Referendum, so that Cubans could be asked if they want to change current laws in a way that freedom of expression, freedom of the press, freedom of association, economic freedom for all Cubans, the liberation of the peaceful political prisoners and the right to elect their representatives in true democratic elections. We have gathered and presented to the National Assembly of the People’s Power over 25.000 signatures supporting the Varela Project, more than twice of the 10.000 asked in the Constitution; and many more citizens are still signing.
The State Security is visiting or citing, one by one, the thousands of Cubans who have signed the Varela Project, in order to make them sign another document saying that they regret having signed the Varela Project, or that they were paid for signing, or that they were promised they would be helped to get a visa to emigrate. Some of them have been threatened to be expelled from their jobs, or that their children could be expelled from university, or even with denying the authorization to leave the country to some who are trying to emigrate.
The renewed and never finished hostility of this regime towards the Varela Project shows that they know it is a true and possible alternative that might bring about the changes the Cuban people want and need. But the government officials are not willing to give up their privileges so easily.
The National Dialogue is another ongoing civic initiative which counts with the participation of thousands of Cubans. In this National Dialogue, Cubans are signaling, since now, under this situation characterized by oppression and the lack of opportunities, what are the changes they want and how they want those changes to take place. That is, the immediate future is being visualized and designed, a future full of hope because it would be born from within the Cuban people, with no impositions nor foreign interferences, with no exclusions or vengeances. That is why the fruit of this National Dialogue would be a Transitional Program built with consensus, with a broad social support, and which would allow us to travel from this no-rights situation towards a democratic society, where all rights and fundamental freedoms are granted and which would be ruled by Law. Cubans who live inside Cuba as well as Cubans in the exile have participated in this National Dialogue, proving to be the same and only Cuban people.
The National Dialogue has helped to destroy several myths developed by the Cuban government to make citizens being afraid of the changes. It has been clearly expressed that most of Cubans want radical changes, but in a peaceful way, with no internal confrontations nor any foreign intervention. It has also been proved that most of the exiles do not want to come back to get their former houses back and away from their present occupants. Cubans want to keep the positive aspects present today; they want to keep the security of having a free public education and health care system, along with some private initiatives in these fields that might act as an alternative and an incentive to improve public services.
The Cubans who have participated in the National Dialogue have expressed their conviction that political and economic freedom, respect for human rights and social justice do not exclude each other. The feedback received in the National Dialogue can let us say that Cubans do not wish any institutional rupture that might lead to chaos or disorder. They do not want any de facto government, nor any antidemocratic succession, nor any foreign interference either. The Transitional Program resulting from this National Dialogue would create all the mechanisms to exercise people’s sovereignty through citizens’ participation and the guarantee for all political, economic and social rights to all Cubans.
If you wish to help the Cuban people in this moments of danger, when some people seem to close peaceful roads to the future, the choice is to support the concrete efforts made inside Cuba, at the cost of repression and prison, to accomplish the reconciliation and the peaceful transition towards democratization and respect of Human Rights. The solidarity of all the American society should be expressed constantly, openly and in a public manner: Supporting the immediate liberation without any conditions of all peaceful political prisoners. Supporting the National Dialogue and the Referendum petition of the Varela Project, which are civic initiatives that are canalizing citizens’ participation towards democratization and reconciliation. This support should come not only from the political world, but also from all sectors of the American society, religious groups, intellectuals, entrepreneurs, young people, workers and associations. It was don with the Chilean and South African peoples.
Havana June 24, 2005 On behalf of the Coordinating Council of the Christian Movement Liberation
Oswaldo José Payá Sardiñas Flavio Labrador Freige
Minervo Lázaro Chil Siret Ernesto Martini Fonseca
Ofelia Acevedo Maura Juan Felipe Medina Díaz
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