By Moustafa Hamze Guilart*
HAVANA TIMES – At the dawn of the 1990s, faced with a lack of responses to the necessary economic reforms of the time, I began to advocate —in my own way— for an orderly transition to democracy in Cuba.
My proposal for this transition is based on the idea that it should be initiated by the current Cuban rulers and their single party; somewhat playfully but mostly seriously “because they own the deck of cards.” They are recognized by the international community and maintain diplomatic relations with all countries. They have a constitution of their design approved in a referendum, and very importantly, they have a well-structured and integrated system of social control and repression, through a judicial power dependent on the state security organs, their mass organizations, and their single party.
In several opinion articles published on this orderly transition to democracy in Cuba, I have made proposals about the programmatic steps to achieve it in peace and harmony among the various pro-democracy Cuban currents and the totalitarian system of government. I h
