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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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