University of Havana Hosts Youth Forum Thinking Americas

Havana, Cuba_ Students of different levels of education and a representation of young Cubans will participate today in the Thinking Americas Youth Forum, which will take place at the University of Havana, Prensa Latina reports.

The contribution of youth to the socioeconomic development of Cuba and topics related to democracy and human rights stand out among the topics that will be analyzed by the event previous the Civil Society Forum of the VIII Summit of the Americas, to be held in Peru next April.

According to the head of the Department of International Relations of the Young Communists League (UJC), Gisleidy Sosa, the presence of new generations of Cubans in the progress of various sectors of the island such as science, health and education, will be also included in the debates.

Sosa explained that the validity of the ideals of the historical leader of the Cuban Revolution, Fidel Castro Ruz, will also be present at the meeting.

As a result of the exchanges, Sosa said, the final declaration of the event will be read, which will contemplate the positions that young Cubans will defend in the forum of the Peruvian capital.

We will not allow aggressions by mercenaries paid for by the US empire, said Asael Alonso, one of the representatives of Cuban youth at the II Civil Society Forum that gathered more than a hundred organizations and associations on the Island in Havana a few days ago.

Alonso assured that, wherever a worthy young man and a revolutionary is, it will not be tolerated attacks on the Cuban sovereignty.

In this way, the young man backed the words of Cuban diplomat Juan Antonio Fernandez to the spokesman of an anti-Cuban coalition that intervened in the Hemispheric Dialogue of Lima, Peru, prior to the VIII Summit of the Americas.

'Don’t mess with Cuba,' Fernandez warned during the Second Civil Society Forum, a position defended by workers, women and religious leaders.

Cuban civil society brings together more than two thousand organizations and associations involved in practically all branches of political, social, economic, cultural and religious life of the Caribbean nation.