El Uvero, Santiago de Cuba.- For 68 young people from Santiago de Cuba, May 28th will be an unforgettable date. Not only because of its significance for the history of the homeland, but also for having revisited both the event and its validity, together with the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez.
This was the eleventh exchange of this kind which, according to the President, "do not have to coincide with closed anniversaries -although 60 years ago the Commander-in-Chief inaugurated the monument commemorating the martyrs of the combat of El Uvero-, but because of the connotation and legacy, which show the revolutionary determination to always win".
Also present at the dialogue were the member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, Roberto Morales Ojeda; the first secretary of the Party in the province, Beatriz Johnson Urrutia; the Governor, Manuel Falcón Hernández; and leaders of the Union of Young Communists (UJC).
CUBA COUNTS ON ITS YOUTH
"From the Universidad de Oriente (UO) we lead projects focused on the use of renewable energies, energy sovereignty, and we are linked to companies in the sector in our provinces. As a student of Electrical Engineering, I understand the complexity of the process," said Daniel Gutiérrez Sánchez.
Díaz-Canel took the opportunity to update on the country's energy strategy. "We have to talk again and again about the lights, because by July, for example, we will have more than 500 megawatts generated from the new solar parks, and we already have around 700 available in distributed generation, although the deficit of fuel and lubricants is the cause of not generating at full capacity". We are here," he said, "because the victory of El Uvero means today that we cannot give up, because we have the capacity to win".
History teacher, Livia Illas Ulloa, said that "Cuba's current conditions demand the knowledge of history and its deepening; when it is taught well, values are transmitted". Diosmer Cordero Montero, a student of Agricultural Engineering at the Municipal University Center, then presented his results in the planting of malanga on two hectares, which is part of his thesis. "On the road to food sovereignty we are taking steps from research and practice. Guamá can count on me," he assured.
The Cuban leader added that good experiences should be generalized, especially with those resistant crops, "and produce them intensively in the territories, and that lowers costs and, in the end, the prices at which the people acquire them".
For his part, young Captain Vidal Castellanos told the President and the political and governmental authorities: "for me it is an honor that the educational institutions of the FARs contribute a lot, not only to the defense of the country, but also to its integral development", he praised.
Leandro Camaño Mendoza, born and raised in El Uvero, "an open-air museum, where the creative work of the Revolution can be breathed and observed everywhere. My family is that of Eligio Mendoza, one of the martyrs of combat, and that legacy cannot be betrayed," he said with determination.
María Carla Leyva Herrera, who is doing the Female Voluntary Military Service, ratified her commitment with the defense of the country, "which will also correspond to me from the study of Journalism, to be able to show the truths and reasons of Cuba". The President was interested in the living conditions in his military unit and then gave the UJC militant card to eight young people of the territory.
"In the midst of a fierce combat, Fidel foresaw that civilians would not be harmed and prisoners would not be mistreated; Raúl, Almeida - defined as the soul of the combat - and Che (...) You are the Generation of the Commander's Centenary, who fight bravely for a better present and future of the Homeland", reflected the President, at the closing of the meeting.
