In the midst of a serious political crisis that has forced it to move several pieces in recent weeks, the Cuban regime this Thursday promoted first secretary of the National Bureau of the Union of Young Communists (UJC) to Meyvis Estevez Echevarría, who served as vice president of the organization.
During the closing of the XII Congress of that body, attended by President Miguel Díaz-Canel, the outgoing first secretary, Ailyn Álvarez García, was recognized and it was announced that she "will assume new tasks in the work of the Party (Communist of Cuba). "reported the official media Canal Caribe.
Instead, she was promoted to first secretary Estévez Echevarría, a 32-year-old young woman with a degree in Law who served as second secretary of the UJC since on January 31, 2023.
"The debates generated speak of a mature youth committed to their time. We confirm that the new generations will take care of unity more than the apple of our eye," she posted on her X Estévez Echevarría account after being elected.
The leader faces one of the organization's worst crises, affected by discontent, exodus and lack of interested young people in integrating their ranks.
Last February Díaz-Canel protested against the few UJC militants who were in a construction company of the Isle of Youth. He was concerned when he found that in the construction company of the special municipality there are 62 young people and none of them are members of the organization.
The increasingly low incorporation of Cubans into political organizations is a problem that worries the regime and which the state press has echoed on several occasions.
In 2022, the newspaper Girón, from Matanzas, compared UJC militants who do not want to join the Party with "children who refuse to eat food without even trying it."
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