Havana/More than a hundred Cubans from inside and outside the Island and from very different fields, from activists to writers, have signed the “Agreement for a free Cuba”, an initiative promoted by civil organizations with one objective: to demand the end of the dictatorship and a transition to democracy. The document, made public by Archivo Cubacalls for, among other things, the release of political prisoners, the restoration of essential services, attention to the current humanitarian emergency and the holding of free elections in the medium term.
“The agony of the Cuban people, faced with the profound crisis that tears the nation apart, forces us – as children of Cuba inside and outside the country – to urgently demand the end of the dictatorship,” begins the text, which aims to gather thousands of signatures inside and outside the country through the online platform Action Network.
The text proposes, on the one hand, measures such as eliminating the control of the Cuban Communist Party over the State and dissolving the main organs of repression and power, including State Security and companies linked to the military apparatus, such as the all-powerful Group of Business Administration SA (Gaesa).
On the other hand, it calls on public officials and employees to remain in their jobs and safeguard all official documents and files. Likewise, it urges the international community to demand that the regime hand over power, not to grant credit or material assistance to the current government and to channel any humanitarian aid – with effective verification mechanisms – only through truly independent institutions or directly to the population.
The text proposes the creation of a working group in charge of laying the foundations for a process of truth, justice, memory and reconciliation
Finally, the text proposes the creation of a working group in charge of laying the foundations for a process of truth, justice, memory and reconciliation, which coordinates the main aspects of the transitional period, including the disqualification of officials of the old regime, the guarantee of justice for the victims, the implementation of reparations, the recovery of misappropriated assets and national heritage, the preservation and access to the archives of the political police, the intelligence services and the Communist Party, the restitution of private property and the promotion of memory historical.
Currently, the petition has gathered 136 verified signatures, with names and surnames, among them those of the opponent José Daniel Ferrer, the economist Elías Amor, the artist Tania Bruguera, the political scientist Armando Chaguaceda, the writer Néstor Díaz de Villegas, the professor Mabel Cuesta, the lawyer Laritza Diversent, the journalist Boris González, the rapper Eliexer Márquez ‘El Funky’, the curator Anamely Ramos or the researcher María Werlau.
On February 4th, a group of women activists – many of them relatives of political prisoners – presented another citizen petition before the National Assembly of People’s Power, in Havana, for which 1,535 verified signatures were collected, with the objective of demanding the drafting of a law that grants amnesty to all political prisoners on the Island. To achieve this goal, they would need to reach 10,000 signatures. The year 2026 has broken historical records in the number of political prisoners, with 1,207 people imprisoned and 18 more so far this year, as reported by the NGO Prisoners Defenders in its February 4 report.
This same Wednesday, the middle Axios revealed, with source in officials of the US Administration, that the Secretary of State, Marco Rubio, and Raúl Castro’s grandsonRaúl Guillermo Rodríguez Castro, known as “the Crab,” have held secret conversations, which informants describe as “discussions about the future of the Island.”
