Havana, Cuba_ Cuban students ratified their conviction and strong protest against the program of the American organization World Learning that offers scholarships to young people between 16 and 18, Suzanne Santiesteban said.

The president of the Federation of High School Students (FEEM), denounced that the US Agency for International Development (USAID), financially supports these actions, which have increased in the last two years.

"We do not deny academic exchange, but always in conditions of mutual respect, and not with impositions of consumerist patterns of capitalism", she emphasized.

Santiesteban called the World Learning program for the Island a hostile and interventionist project, position that is supported by the Cuban students, defender of the values forged by the Revolution.

World Learning is a nonprofit organization whose goal is supposedly to empower people and strengthen institutions. Their offices are based in Washington and Vermont and it receives funding from various bodies of the United States Department of State, including USAID, to promote a change in Cuba.

World Learning carried out between last July and August a called Summer Program for Cuban Youth. They sought to recruit young people between 16 and 18 years old with high school studies, according to their illegitimate interests.

The program included the development of a final project focused on activities for them to implement when returing to Cuba, which would then be closely monitored by the generous sponsors.

They did not have into consideration the Cuban authorities. The four people sent from Panama to give the finishing touches to the collection reached the Greater of the Antilles with tourist visas, so they violated the terms of their stay in Cuba and were warned by the immigration authorities.

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