Susely Morfa becomes the new First Secretary of Young Communists

Yuniasky Crespo Baquero's time as First Secretary of the National Committee of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) came to an end after the organization decided that the hitherto number two, Susely Morfa González, would be in charge of taking over.

Susely Morfa, 34, is a psychologist by profession and comes from the province of Cienfuegos. The position of second secretary of the youth organization will be in the hands of Ronal Hidalgo Rivera, in charge of Education, an area that became the responsibility of the former leader of the Communist Youth in the eastern province of Granma, Yanetsy Rodríguez Sampson.

According to official Cuban media, the change at the top took place in an extraordinary meeting of the highest body of the UJC, held this Saturday afternoon and attended by the second secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC, sole), José Ramón Machado Ventura and the first vice president of the island, Miguel Díaz-Canel.

He was also promoted to the position of second secretary of the youth organization, according to the state-run Cuban News Agency.

When speaking at the meeting, Machado Ventura highlighted the "seriousness" and "demand" of the work of Yuniasky Crespo Baquero, who from this moment on will hold responsibilities in the PCC, which considers the Communist Youth as its quarry.

Member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party and the Council of State of Cuba, Crespo Baquero was born in Las Tunas (east of the country), she graduated in Marxism-Leninism at a pedagogical university and was elected as first secretary of the UJC in 2012 at 35. years.

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