Young delegates and invited to the X Congress of the Federation of Cuban Women (FMC) reaffirmed today the commitment of the new generations, as guarantors of continuity, with the preservation of everything achieved, the defense of the earned space and even greater victories for the organization.

The theme was devoted debates and reflections in one of the four working committees of the important forum, which will be held Thursday and Friday in plenary, and those who met at the Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology made it very clear that youth can be tell, that is present, and always will be.

It is that pioneering institution of biotechnology in Cuba, a stronghold of young science and a symbol of the talent and virtues of the "new pines", and Mercedes López Acea, member of the Political Bureau of the Party, assured that a better scenario could not be thought of. , more inspiring and revealing of what defines Cuban youth.

There met federated very young, some still teenagers, but with responsibilities already-and large-and not a few results in the work of the organization in delegations and blocks and even at the municipal and provincial levels.

They spoke eloquently of the Federation they want and for which they work: true to their roots, history, ideals and essences, and that, as the Lamellian Toledano said, just 16 years old, it must necessarily resemble her time. to say, to the best of this time, the virtuous, useful and beautiful.

Meet and quote are the ABC of any organization, just the essential, but work is much more, and life shows that where there is leadership, initiative, perennial contact, concern, work, people respond and young people join, opined the pinareña Edelmis del Llano, twenty-year-old, cooperativist and future agronomist.

From work with the family, the school - the basic secondary school where those who will soon be old enough to join the ranks of the organization - spoke in this committee, as well as the many dreams and projects of life and improvement personal and professional that helps to materialize.

I am an example of that, said Clara Elena Machado, from Baracoa, province of Guantánamo, captured by the FMC for the Female Voluntary Military Service, which she currently serves in the Brigade de la Frontera, after which she will be able to pursue the university career she has always wanted. .

For women to pass the service and prepare for the defense represents a need for the country and, at the same time, an extraordinary opportunity for us to be the "Marianas" of today, said the young woman in the presence of the general Delsa Esther "Teté "Puebla, member of the legendary female platoon of the Rebel Army and who told anecdotes of the days in the Sierra and honored Commander Fidel and Vilma, eternal President of the FMC.

Several interventions abounded in the need for a greater presence and better positioning of the contents and the work of the organization in the media and, above all, in social networks, and the enormous contribution that such and such young, as digital "natives" that they are.

Both Teresa Amarelle Boué, member of the Political Bureau and secretary general of the FMC, and Abel Prieto Jiménez, director of the Office of the Martian Program, stressed that in this war of symbols and symbols that Cuba launches its enemies, the best weapons are our truths and reasons and, the most effective antidote, the development of a critical conscience, that allows to discern.

We have this huge social network that is the FMC and we must take advantage of it, emphasized the female leader, and the President of the José Martí Cultural Society considered the communities as an excellent scenario to discuss, in family, about these and other phenomena and realities and to share arguments.

In you we see the guarantee of continuity of the Federation of Cuban Women, as a guarantee of continuity of the Revolution is that extraordinary youth that studies, works, contributes, dreams and builds, and of which we live proud, assured Mercedes López Acea, congratulating to the members of this commission of the X Congress for such an excellent work session.

Source: ACN