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Young Cubans have found their Moncada and attack it every day Excerpt from speech by Miguel Mario Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, at the closing ceremony of the 12th Congress of the Young Communist League of Cuba
April-May 2024 complex reality, but you do not stop singing, dancing, laughing. You, those who won the right to be in this 12th Congress, are the vanguard of a joyful and profound youth defined by Che Guevara in a memorable phrase.
That vanguard, still imperfect, like the society we are building, but also like it, passionate and fighting, is the one that has the responsibility to unite and motivate the
How right Fidel was to believe in young people! Let me begin by thanking you for the depth and joy of this Congress. I believe that the quality of the debates and the documents that motivated them make a long speech unnecessary, but at the same time they inspire us to add some very specific evaluations, with the deep feeling of being part of you, something that happens to all of us who militated and fulfilled leadership tasks in the Young Communist League in other times.
new generations.
And they have done so. Today we can say with healthy and legitimate pride that young Cubans have found their Moncada and attack it every day (Applause).
This is confirmed by the summary of the Central Report to the Congress, read by Aylín. I am not going to list all the tasks, I will just name some of the feats of these
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We repudiate with all our strength the ruthless persecution and genocide that in its time Nazism unleashed against the Hebrew people. But I cannot recall anything more similar in our contemporary history than the eviction, persecution, and genocide being carried out today by imperialism and Zionism against the Palestinian people
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COMANDANTE FIDEL AT THE 34TH SESSION OF THE UNITED NATIONS GENERAL ASSEMBLY, IN NEW YORK CITY ON 12 OCTOBER OF 1979
You create happiness, as you have set out to do. Even in these difficult and challenging times, when the population segment that grows the least in our society is that of those under 30 years of age; when Cuban children and youth live and develop under the harsh conditions of a country surrounded, persecuted, punished, mainly in the economy, but also in their dreams and hopes.
Against the imperial logic that tries to absorb you, to empty you, to surrender you and make you deny your fate and your history, you advance in the revolutionary logic: you analyze, discuss, criticize and recognize, propose and transform the most
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