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Vol. 81/No. 29      August 7, 2017

 
 

Nicaragua events build World Festival of youth, students

Militant/Jacob Perasso

MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Ronal Hidalgo Rivera, second secretary of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba, speaks to over 100 young people at the Sao Paulo Forum Youth Meeting here July 17. Oscar López Rivera, on Hidalgo’s right, also spoke. López won his freedom earlier this year after spending 36 years in jail in the U.S. for his participation in the struggle for independence of Puerto Rico. A worldwide campaign was waged to win his release. The meeting was one of several held that day as part of the 23rd Sao Paulo Forum July 15-21.

“In October we will celebrate the World Festival of Youth and Students and officially, in front of all of you, we invite Oscar López to participate to help us understand what we are and where we are going,” José Maury del Toro, secretary general of the World Federation of Democratic Youth, and a leader of the Union of Young Communists of Cuba, to Hidalgo’s left, told young people at the meeting. “It will be a great pleasure to have Oscar there with us to show the world what solidarity can accomplish.”

Hidalgo Rivera and some 20 representatives of youth organizations in WFDY’s Americas region met the following morning to discuss participation in the Oct. 14-22 festival in Sochi, Russia. WFDY is an international anti-imperialist youth organization that has organized festivals around the world since 1947. Delegations are being built across the continent from Cuba, as well as Panama, Mexico, Venezuela, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Canada and the United States to attend the gathering and take part in discussions and debates about defense of the Cuban Revolution and other activities.

— JACOB PERASSO

 
 
 
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