Cuba Calls for Youth Participation in Government Policies

Havana, July 12 (ACN) Cuba called for the leading participation of youth movements in the design of government policies, during the high-level forum of youth authorities with the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of our Americas and Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).

On her Twitter account, Cuban Young Communist League first secretary Aylin Alvarez said that the message of the island’s delegation to the meeting focused on the crucial role of the ALBA-TCP youth movements in designing government policies, and she also denounced those trying to spread an image depicting Cuban youths as foreign to the values of the revolution.

Alvarez stressed the energetic condemnation, a the forum, of the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of Cuba, which is the main cause for limitations and shortages affecting Cuban youths and she went on to appreciate the support given by the ALBA-TCP countries against the over-60-year US hostile policy.

In another message Alvarez referred to the acknowledgment by the ALBA-TCP executive secretary Sacha Llorenti of the victory of the Cuban people over US coup-oriented attempts.

The ALBA-TCP was set up in 2004 on the initiative of Fidel Castro and Hugo Chavez as an integration platform for the peoples of Latin America and the Caribbean with emphasis on solidarity, justice and cooperation.
The bloc is made up of Cuba, Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Dominica, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Antigua-Barbuda, Saint Kitts-Nevis, Saint Lucia and Grenada.