"On that November 17, 2005, I was barely a year old, but I belong to a generation that has grown up under the teachings of his legacy."
This is how Litza Elena González Desdín, national president of the Federation of University Students (FEU), spoke about Fidel Castro, commemorating the 20th anniversary of the Commander-in-Chief's historic speech in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana.
She recalled Fidel's courageous expression of confidence in the new generations, when "he told us that our historical enemies could never destroy the Revolution, but we could." And that she did so “with conviction and faith in victory, counting on the main army that has always defended the revolutionary work: the people, and within them, Cuban youth.”
At the event, led by the President of the National Defense Council, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz; and the Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party, Roberto Morales Ojeda—both members of the Political Bureau—as well as the Commander of the Rebel Army, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Litza Elena emphasized that her contemporaries have lived through an era of heroic creation. “Studying the history, the work, and the thought of the Commander-in-Chief has made us feel like bearers of the main challenges of our time.”
During the commemoration, the President of the FEU called on students to participate in the program “One University, One Task.” A faculty, a community, that in the centennial year of Fidel Castro's birth will connect university students to concrete projects for the country's socioeconomic development.
