Manuel Cuesta Morúa, historian and Cuban political activist with a social democratic profile, Ion Ratiu Prize 2016, responds to the most controversial issues in Cuba: social rights, the US embargo, the Guantanamo naval base, the democratic opposition and the long period of time of perpetuation in the power of a single party regime. Cuesta Morúa also raises an international leadership of a democratic Cuba in human rights, following the experience of Václav Havel in the Czech Republic.