200 Cuban Youth to Participate in Fidel-Themed Russia Festival

About 200 youth delegates and 50 guests will represent Cuba at the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students taking place in Sochi, Russia later this year. The event will run from from Oct. 14-21 and will be dedicated to Cuba's revolutionary leader Fidel Castro.

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Susely Morfa, first secretary of the National Committee of the Young Communists Union, said that proposals for the main event, established primarily from grassroot organizations, will be validated by delegates participating in provincial festivals in Cuba. These events will held in the provinces of Granma and Cienfuegos, according to Juventud Rebelde.

Speaking with the press after leaving the Granma edition of the Festival, Morfa noted that of the 200 delegates, about 50 will be students from different fields of study.

“Various sectors of society will be represented in the Cuban delegation: workers, peasants, scientists, intellectuals, service workers, health and education workers,” she said.

“There will also be talented young people who'll raise their voices not only for Cuba, but for all Latin America.”

Morfa also noted that Cuba's provincial festivals, which serve as preludes to the world event, will culminate in an event in Havana on August 13 – Fidel's birthday – with an anti-imperialist tribunal.

“It's important that in these scenarios we analyze what we have achieved in Cuba,” Morfa stressed while noting that such accomplishments “are not even dreams for many people in the world.”

Other notable figures such as Argentine revolutionary Che Guevara and Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic independence hero Mohamed Abdelaziz will be celebrated at the 19th World Festival of Youth and Students.

The festival, which began in 1945, brings together thousands of youth from around the world to defend the rights and interests of students, workers and oppressed people.