What is Cuba Decide🇨🇺
We haven't had free elections in Cuba for 70 years.
Many generations have already been and continue to be deprived of their rights.
The initiative
Cuba Decide It is a citizen initiative to change the system in Cuba towards democracy and the rule of law.
We are Cubans on the island and around the world, together with international friends, working tirelessly to achieve peaceful change. The regime's threats do not paralyze us. Fear does not dominate us. We fight for a democratic Cuba that is ever closer.
Cuba Decide It is a non-profit, non-partisan, and pluralistic platform.
We work to ensure that Cuba is a prosperous and happy society of free citizens, with equal opportunities and equality before the law. A democracy where our right to elect and be elected is respected.
The home of all Cubans, where we can fight for our dreams. A nation open to the world, where no one persecutes or expels you for thinking differently.
It's time!
The world is unaware of the magnitude of the material and social misery faced by Cubans.
For a Cuba for all Cubans
Cuba wants to change. Cubans deserve to be free citizens with equal opportunities.
Mission
Cuba Decide It is a citizen initiative to change the system in Cuba towards democracy and the rule of law.
We are Cubans on the island and around the world, together with international friends, working tirelessly to achieve peaceful change. The regime's threats do not paralyze us. Fear does not dominate us. We fight for a democratic Cuba that is ever closer.
Cuba Decide It is a non-profit, non-partisan, and pluralistic platform.
Vision
We work to ensure that Cuba is a prosperous and happy society of free citizens, with equal opportunities and equality before the law. A democracy where our right to elect and be elected is respected.
The home of all Cubans, where we can fight for our dreams. A nation open to the world, where no one persecutes or expels you for thinking differently.
strategy
Peaceful mobilization of Cubans and the international community. Pressing for the people to be able to elect freely and democratically.
Inform, engage, and mobilize Cubans on and off the island.
The Proposal / The Tool
What do we propose?
A binding plebiscite to begin the transition to democracy
Why?
Because the Cuban people have the right to decide the system they want to live in, and we want to change the failed system imposed by the regime.
For what?
So that the Cuban people can be free and prosperous, choose their government and their future.
So that Cubans can realize their dreams through creativity and self-employment. So that we can build an excellent healthcare and education system and have the opportunity to access decent housing and a decent salary through our own efforts.
The plebiscite
Cuba Decide It proposes, as a technical tool, the holding of a Binding Plebiscite to initiate a transition to democracy.
Citizens will be able to accept or reject the following question:
"Do you agree with holding free, fair, and plural elections, exercising freedom of expression and the press; and organizing freely in political parties and social organizations with complete plurality? Yes or no?"
Why a plebiscite?
We Cubans continue to be deprived of a voice and democratic channels to build the prosperous and open society we want. The citizens' initiative Cuba Decide Holding a binding plebiscite is the tool for the people to express themselves and sovereignly decide on the change to a democratic system that respects the plurality of Cuban society. We have chosen this path because:
- The need is evident, and every day, the number of calls for profound change on the island is growing among Cubans everywhere.
- There is an elementary contradiction between the Vienna Declaration adopted by the Cuban State in 1993, which establishes that: “Democracy is based on the freely expressed will of the people to determine their own political, economic, social, and cultural regime, and on their full participation in all aspects of life.” and the declaration of the economic, political and social system as irrevocable, included in the Cuban Constitution since 2002.
- The arbitrary constitutional change of 2002, government repression, and the Cuban legal system prevent the minimum conditions necessary for holding free, fair, and plural elections and contradict the desire for democratic change to a plural system expressed in accordance with their constitutional right by more than XNUMX Cuban voters and more than XNUMX Cubans in exile who signed the Varela Project.
- For more than 65 years, Cubans have been unable to participate in free elections or in shaping the course of our society. The absence of this environment of law and self-determination has plunged the people into poverty and led our country to economic and social failure, accompanied by the constant mass exodus of its citizens.
For Cuba, it is time to decide!