CAMAGÜEY. - With the magisterial conference “Cultural and symbolic War, the challenges of the Cuban youth”, led by Iroel Sánchez and Yosuán Palacios, the Provincial Festival of the Youth began this morning in Camagüey. The appointment assembles delegates of all the municipalities, with the objective to debate about the Cuban reality and the role of the new generations in the future of the country.

“This future depends, in first place, on you”, pointed out Sánchez after detailing how the spirit of creation is characteristic of the young people and it is up to them to prosecute it in the construction of its own symbols, of the country in which they want to live.

“But nobody can commit the sin of the innocence, we face times of a deep and continued symbolic war, in which some of them can succumb to the subversive messages that come from the exterior and that are endorsed by a lot of money of the government of the United States”.

The director of the television program La Pupila Asombrada (Surprised Pupil) highlighted that only last year the northern authorities destined more 50 million dollars to the maintenance of Radio and Television Martí, and to support the dissent inside and out of Cuba; “taken to the official change it would be as if they were assigning 1 200 millions Cuban pesos, the triple of what today uses our country for all its system of press and communication.

“With so much money, it is not a chance that it has bloomed this segment shaped by some intellectuals and professionals of the information, which defends a supposed third route under protection of the 'centrism', which is only the old social democracy dressed in new robes”, concluded Yosuán Palacio for his part, he highlighted the importance of “we will not forget Martí and his essential sermon, that of Cuba can only be constructed by the route of the independence”.

For the national president of the Martí´s Youth movement, “it is not a question of excluding the Cubans who can think differently, but of knowing what can be understood by revolutionary and by patriot, and of acting consequently with it”.

During the exchange that followed the interventions of the speakers several young people, of the municipality of Guáimaro, of the University Ignacio Agramonte Loynaz and Vocational Máximo Gómez, they highlighted the importance that topics as that one do not stay in the frame of the assistants to the festival. “The revolution is constructed from all the spaces in which we act, the same ones to which sometimes arrive the effects of programs as aggressive as that of World Learning,  which some months ago was shown up by our country”, thought Roxana Díaz, one of the elect representatives in the Cradle of the Constitution.

The Provincial Festival of the Youth in Camagüey initiated early with the trip of the delegates from the Agramonte Park up to the Native House of El Mayor, besieged the last one where they knew details about the life of the distinguished hero of the province. Then, their happiness "took" as an assault the Center of Conventions Santa Cecilia, where there took place the conference led by Sánchez and Palacios. The same stage receives now the meetings by commissions, which there heads the first secretary of the National Committee of the UJC, Sucelys Morfa.

In the evening, there is foreseen the exchange of the juvenile avant-garde with the maximum authorities of the territory and between others will be debated in four specializing workshops, topics related to the peace, the war, the education, the culture, the technologies, the employment, the human rights, among others.

Translated by Linet Acuña Quilez