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Living commitment with the sons and daughters of the Homeland 

28 November 2024
This content originally appeared on Granma - Official voice of the PCC.
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Even 153 years later, the Cuban people do not forget those bullets that took the lives of eight young medical students, unjustly accused by colonialism of desecrating the grave of a Spanish journalist.At that time, the triumphant immorality never imagined that it would turn them into a banner of struggle against hatred, and that the shared pain would be reversed today, with the fanned student force, in defense of the conquests of the Revolution.That is why, just when one more year has passed, the streets of the capital witnessed yesterday, the march led by hundreds of students and a representation of the people who, as an unalterable memory of the colonizing consequences, marched from the steps of the University of Havana to the monument, in tribute to the eight medical students, located in La Punta.The people were accompanied by the First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, and, precisely, in front of the Alma Mater, Ricardo Rodríguez González, national president of the University Student Federation, expressed that young people will never give up the freedom to train for the future, and to do so without the fear of someone deciding that they should die."It is a moral and human obligation to make this tribune a trench of condemnation of the cruel genocide that has been scorned against the peoples of the world, against the cruel economic, commercial and financial blockade, against the bombs falling on Gaza...", he affirmed.Also in attendance were Roberto Morales Ojeda, member of the Political Bureau and Secretary of Organization of the Central Committee of the Party; Meyvis Estévez Echevarría, First Secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists; as well as other leaders of the Party, the Government, political and mass organizations, the Revolutionary Armed Forces and the Ministry of the Interior.