By: Santiago Romero, MSc.
It is no secret that the Santiago de Cuba youth is among the macabre priority goals of the U.S. organizations that operate against Cuba, and they do not even pretend on presenting themselves as non-governmental organizations with supposedly “peaceful” and “democratic” purposes.

The worst thing would be if the vanguard youth were to yield or hesitate in the face of any attempt against this political center, which has become the “Moral Capital of the Cuban East”.

It is not a matter of measuring the response of the youth by the number of scheduled meetings and their compliance, the problem is in maintaining the internal communication of the Young Communist League (UJC in Spanish) in Santiago, in coordinating more actions from the public and media agenda, the non-divorce before priorities such as the support at all costs of the economic plan of the year,  to work and not to lament, and to avoid so many theories that only divert the lines towards the urgencies of today.

It is about the best attention to many young people without jobs, others who do not study, nor are linked to any consistent project in the production of goods and services; it is about going to each social case, knocking on doors, talking, knowing about individual situations and trying to find possible solutions.

In this community work we even discover things as soluble as the lack of orientation or the lack of actuality about so many measures, laws, resolutions and variants that the government approves and places the communities as decision makers.

Last June, the Santiago de Cuba UJC defined more than one hundred key points in the provincial strategy and made it known to the Party, the update was even presented by the general secretariat in the recent plenary session of the Provincial Committee of the PCC, headed here by Miguel Diaz Canel, First Secretary and President of the Republic of Cuba.

It happens that it is still pending the best action towards agriculture, industries, right now, the coffee harvest in the province and the urgencies in sugar cane production.

The motivations in this month of October 2024 are emerging, but not as necessary, while the political-ideological front must be more creative, increase its mobilizing capacity, take initiatives and not always wait for guidance from the higher level.

Right now, the Camilo-Che celebration is taking on new incentives in view of the tense situation in the economy, the climate changes, the greater pressures of the blockade against Cuba and the need to comply with the 2024 economic plan.

The positive reaction should not be seen only in what we have done, but in the permanent challenges in each work subsystem. Each generation had its leading role and the current one cannot be the exception.