Politics and Civil Society in Cuba

133 6 Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba Ana Cristina Maldonado St. Thomas University Abstract:The Rev ...

134 Chapter 6 groups has challenged the Cuban government, seeking to establish domestic and international support for an alterna ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 135 The Varela Project: a Constitutional Citizen Petition for a Leg ...

136 Chapter 6 Cubano coalition building effort (1995-6), the discussions at the most recent Congress of the Cuban Communist Part ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 137 The Varela Project’s goal was to collect at least 10,000 signat ...

138 Chapter 6 the project’s legitimation of the 1976 Constitution and with Payá’s willingness to engage the Cuban government (Pé ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 139 In December 2003, in spite of these conditions, Payá and his wi ...

140 Chapter 6 MCL with continued repression, unremitting harassment, infiltration, and delegitimization (ACI Press, August 13, 2 ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 141 disbanded by the efforts of Cuba’s internal security forces (J. ...

142 Chapter 6 Theoretical Basis of the MCL's Legal Dissent Strateg y As a domestic civic movement, the MCL is a well-integrated ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 143 national—all capable of mobilizing collectively around a princi ...

144 Chapter 6 Despite the legal basis and moderate nature of their proposals, the MCL is apparently trying to dialog with a gove ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 145 (“Yo No Chivateo”), and not attending mass meetings (“Yo No Asi ...

146 Chapter 6 Charter of the Organization of American States (OAS) (1997) and the Inter-american Democratic Charter (2001). Docu ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 147 International perception, pressure and the boomerang effect are ...

148 Chapter 6 that popular complicity with dictatorship, whether coercively extracted or voluntarily given, is withdrawn or shif ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 149 Revolution, and the reasons for which it was fought, have on-go ...

150 Chapter 6 While there have been very few surveys conducted by international non-government organizations in Cuba, surveys co ...

Legal Dissent: Constitutional Proposals for “Cambio” in Cuba 151 tion, who are marginalized from political power. In many cases, ...

152 Chapter 6 leaders from a range of political tendencies, including the Christian/ Center Democratic (Oswaldo Payá), Social De ...