Oppositors presented a “national salvation plan”, prepared in detail, which proposes a transition government, economic and social reforms, and a national unemployment strategy as a way to achieve freedom in Cuba.
Madrid, Spain.- Cuban opponent Luis Zúñiga, a member of the Cuban Democratic Board of Directors, presented the guidelines of the National Salvation Plan, an initiative prepared by the Cuban resistance assembly (ARC) With the support of organizations such as Brigade 2506, Alfa 66, the November 30 movement and independent union associations.
The proposal – presented in a special commission, called “National Salvation Plan”, during the Conference “Save Cuba”– seeks to answer one of the most frequent questions among Cubans: “What will happen to the day after the dictatorship?” and intends to avoid improvisation in an eventual democratic transition process.
A national council and a provisional executive
The Plan contemplates the creation of a National Council composed of 51 representatives of resistance organizations, with an openness to military who decide to join the democratic process. This body would have legislative and advisory functions, and would designate a national executive of three members (a president and two vice presidents) to direct the country for a period of between 12 and 24 months.
The members of that Executive cannot present themselves as candidates in the first free elections, and will be accompanied by two key commissions: one judicial, responsible for restoring an independent justice system, and another economic, responsible for auditing the finance inherited from Castroism.
Constitution of 1940 and elections
During the transition period, the legal framework will be governed by the Constitution of 1940the last Magna Carta de la Reublica, which will be adapted to the current circumstances. In addition, a provisional electoral law will be implemented inspired by the Cuban democratic tradition and in the experience of Costa Rica.
At the end of the transition, general elections would be convened for a Congress of the Republic, in charge of promoting a constituent assembly that writes a new constitution – it is already an updated version of that of 1940 or a new text – which must undergo popular referendum.
Economic and Social Proposal
In economic matters, the document proposes a temporary dollarization to stabilize the economy, following models applied in Eastern European countries after the fall of communism. It also provides for the privatization of state companies, the establishment of an independent central bank, a simplified tax system, and the promotion of foreign investment and free trade.
In the social field, deep reforms are raised in the educational system, including the elimination of Marxist-Leninist ideological teaching and the restitution of civic and religious subjects. In addition, the recovery of historical truth is promoted, with the opening of state archives and judgments for the crimes committed under the communist regime.
Liberation Strategy: National strike
The manifesto warns that communist regimes do not deliver power voluntarily, so the proposed resistance strategy focuses on national unemployment. The tactic known as “Three for three” Look for citizen organization in human chains difficult to repress: “We are already in national unemployment, I already have my three. You look for your three,” says the text.
For Zúñiga, this non -violent route would allow paralyzing regime structures and creating the conditions for the establishment of a national salvation government.
A future “without improvisation”
“The manifesto of national salvation is a tool for the people of Cuba to know that there is a solid path and that the reconstruction will not depend on improvisation,” said Zúñiga.
The opponent also stressed that the plan is not closed or exclusive, but a provisional base open to modifications according to the needs of the democratic process: “It is no longer only to end the opprobrium of the dictatorship, but to fight knowing that there is a brilliant future for Cuba.”
