To be a young Cuban today is to walk with two compasses: one in the heart and another in history. It is to feel the Caribbean sun and, at the same time, the fire of an idea that precedes and defines us. It is to be heirs of a struggle and architects of a future. It is to know that our voice has the echo of Maceo, the clarity of Fidel, and the immense responsibility of those who build now.

To be a follower of Martí’s ideas in the 21st century is not an exercise in memory, it is an act of creation. It is to see in «with all and for the good of all» the mandate to include, to listen, to add in every classroom, in every hall of residence, in every project. It is to translate «Homeland is humanity» into concrete solidarity, into a global outlook and firm roots.

It is to take on «to be educated, in order to be free,» as the need to master science, to question with foundation, to create revolutionary art and to defend our truth with reason, not only with passion.

To be a young Martiano today is: to hold the torch in hand and keep both feet on the ground. To dream big, but to act where we are, with our people; to study with the voracity of one who knows that knowledge is the first trench; to defend justice, not as a distant concept, but in the day-to-day: in equity and in honesty. To love Cuba with intelligence: working for what we love, protecting sovereignty as a collective treasure.

We are not the youth of tomorrow. We are the youth of NOW, with the urgency of Martí in our soul and the tools of the present in our hands. Our tribute is not just a march. It is how we live, how we study, how we unite, how we create. The March of the Torches is the symbol that ignites and renews that commitment. It is the collective «Present!» we shout every day with our actions.

We are the young people Martí imagined: free, educated, active. And we are building, here and now, the Homeland he dreamed of.

See you at the march with the Centenary Anti-imperialist Torch.

Taken from the Facebook profile of Kevin Marcos Delgado Álvarez