The UJC deflates: Loses more than 15% of its membership in five months in Ciego de Ávila.

The Young Communist League (UJC) in Ciego de Avila lost 15% of its workforce in the last five months, reported the leadership of that organization in the province.

During the plenary session of the Provincial Committee of the organization, Nailyn Machado Ávila, the first secretary of the Provincial Committee of the UJC, acknowledged a significant decline in the last five months, as reported by the local newspaper Invasor.

According to the report presented by the young woman, at the end of May the province had 18,957 members, 2,906 fewer than in December 2023, which represents a decrease of 15.32% in its ranks.

Additionally, the organization's base structures were reduced by 10.82%, with only 1,334 out of the 1,496 that existed at the end of the previous year being accounted for.

This means that in five months, three out of every 20 militants from Ciego de Ávila stopped belonging to the organization, and one out of every 10 grassroots structures disintegrated.

Since 2022, the crisis in the structures such as the UJC and the Communist Party of Cuba (PCC) began to be noticed in Ciego de Ávila, where half of its municipalities were then unable to attract new members.

The official press did not specify which territories had the most deficit in PCC members, but acknowledged that there were 132 centers without cores of militants, where at least three are essential for their formation, according to the Regulations of the Base Organizations.

In the midst of a drastic decrease in militancy, the Cuban regime asked young people last April to stay in the country to build "collective happiness," and approved that foreigners "identified with the principles of the revolution" may join the ranks of the UJC.

However, the crisis in the country and the migratory stampede has left the country without optimistic young people about the future of the current political process.

The Cuban leader Miguel Díaz-Canel addressed the youth of the country the day before with a message in which he acknowledged that "difficult times" are being experienced, but he urged them to "feel the joy of contributing to the revolution in one of the most challenging times in history."