The Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy celebrates its XV Anniversary
By Movimiento Cubano de Jóvenes por la Democracia

 

Guantánamo, Cuba. July 24, 2006. After a long struggle for national reconstruction and in defense of the inalienable rights of human beings, the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy celebrated its fifteenth anniversary on July 16^th along with its founding member and president, Néstor Rodriguez Lobaina. With much joy and sprit, the members of our organization celebrated the fifteen years of the movement, ratifying the great will of the Cuban youth to continue with the struggle for the ideal that will guide this nation to democracy and that will reinstate the historical bequest of many who have died for Cuba’s freedom.

After singing the Cuban national anthem, the young activists remembered all the years of struggle of the organization. Homage was paid to José Antonio Echevarria,  Alberto Tapia Ruano,  Virgilio Campanería,  Pedro Luís Boitel, and imprisoned activists such as Juan Carlos Herrera Acosta, Claro Sánchez Altarriba, Carlos Luís Díaz Fernández, Yordelis Duvalón Guiver Ortiz, Oswaldo Rams de la Cruz, Randy Cabrera Mayor, and all Cuban martyrs who, under a communist regime, sacrificed their lives for freedom.

The importance of the Cuban university student sector was pointed out as a fundamental for the reconstruction of an open society, and as a challenge for future generations. We remembered all victims of student oppression in the world and in our country. The University Students Without Borders project, which seeks reforms for university autonomy in Cuba, was established as the foundation to continue our work as well as the changes that the Cuban nation demands.

Given by professor Julián Antonio Monet Borrero, Director of Information and Press of the Cuban Youth Movement for Democracy.