In the Aula Magna of the University of Havana, the 20th anniversary of Fidel’s words was commemorated; words which were, there, a warning of the greatest danger, and an expression of his confidence in the young.

«That 17th of November 2005, I was barely a year old, but I belong to a generation that has grown up under the teaching of his legacy.»

This is how the national president of the University Student Federation (FEU), Litza Elena González Desdín, spoke about Fidel, recalling the 20th anniversary of the historic speech by the Commander-in-Chief in the Aula Magna of the University of Havana.

She recalled Fidel’s brave expression of confidence in the new generations, when «he told us that our historical enemies could never destroy the Revolution, but we could»; and that he did so «from conviction and faith in victory, counting on the principal army that the defence of the revolutionary work has always had: the people, and within them, Cuban youth.»

At the event, headed by the President of the National Defence Council, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez; by the Prime Minister, Manuel Marrero Cruz, and by the Secretary of Organisation of the Central Committee of the Party, Roberto Morales Ojeda – both members of the Political Bureau –; as well as by the Commander of the Rebel Army, José Ramón Machado Ventura, Litza Elena emphasised that her contemporaries have lived in a time of heroic creation. «The study of history, of the work and the thought of the Commander-in-Chief has made us feel that we are also bearers of the principal challenges of our time.»

At the commemoration, the President of the FEU called on the student body to be part of the programme ‘One University, One Task; One Faculty, One Community’, which in the year of Fidel’s centenary will link university students to concrete work for the socio-economic development of the country.