Among the 180 delegates who have already confirmed their attendance we find Portuguese Tiago Vieira, president of the World Democratic Youth Federation, and Argentinean Alejo Ramirez, general secretary of the Iberian-American Youth Organization.

Their presence reaffirms the increasing interest and support the cause of Gerardo
Hernandez, Fernando Gonzalez, Antonio Guerrero, Ramon Labañino and Rene Gonzalez, finds in new generations everywhere, asserted on Friday Leira Sanchez, member of the National Bureau of the Young Communists League (UJC), in her conversation with the press.

With respect to the program for this event, she placed emphasis on the meetings delegates will be able to have with relatives of The Five, during which they will know more about the latest developments in their legal process and the world campaign in favor of the release of these men, the victims of the imperial hatred against Cuba.

There will also be workshops on the contribution of art to the victory of truth, where participants will share experiences, with their sights on the common struggle of youngsters to demand of President Barack Obama the end of such colossal injustice, she stressed.

Also, at the “Julio Antonio Mella” National School of the UJC, main venue of the youth forum, Rene de la Nuez, Aristides Esteban Hernandez (Ares) and other Cuban caricaturists will turn humor, like Gerardo, into an effective combat weapon for this and for all just causes of their people and humanity.

In fact, the “Rebel Humor” workshop already began its sessions, with the “DDT with Gerardo” gallery, opened on the Web site of the Juventud Rebelde newspaper, increasingly filled with caricatures sent from all parts of the world as a birthday present for the hero, who will 46 on Saturday, she explained.

Sanchez underlined that, unlike the previous two editions of this biennial event, new information and communication technologies will have a decisive participation, and not only because of the debate on how useful they can be to break the wall of silence imposed with regard to this case.

On June 13, at 9:00 a.m., from the http://www.foros.cubava.cu Web site, the interactive forum “Freedom now, put an end to injustice. Release them now!” will take place, while blogs and other sites in social networks will cover the meeting and will guarantee a practically online presence of it on the Internet, she pointed out.

Represented by pioneer children, students, foreign scholarship holders, young workers, combatants and religious persons, Cuba share valuable ideas and experiences, highlighted the youth leader, who also mentioned the presentation of La Colmenita Children’s Theater Group at the Covarrubias Hall of the National Theater with the piece Abracadabra, on June 12.

He also spoke about a visit to Jaimanitas, a coastal town on the outskirts of Havana, where plastic arts creator Jose Antonio Rodriguez Fuster carries out a community work project that includes the “Olympus of The Five,” and about the poetry recital and the concert at the capital’s Cuba Pavilion as the conclusion of the youth forum.