The Cuban Student Body: A Story of Heroism Against Tyranny

Historically, Cuban student youth have always been the first who started acts of rebellion and have faced the Dictatorship and the anti-Cuban Communist Party.

It was students in Havana that protested and broke the crown of flowers that Anastas Mikoyan, a serious Soviet criminal, placed in front of the statue of Martí in the Central Park.

It was students in Las Villas who were the first rose up in Escambray, led by Porfirio Ramirez, President of the University Student Federation (FEU) of the Central University of Las Villas.

And we were the students of Santiago de Cuba who, one month after the execution of Porfirio Ramirez, personally called for a successful strike of protests, with the support of 1,500 students that on that day completely left all the classrooms of the Institute of Secondary Education vacant.

Juan Felipe de la Cruz, one of the bravest figures out of all Cuban youth, died in the far off trenches of Paris, in the heroic war for the streets of the world.

Also executed in Cuba was the great Paco Cid, one of the officials that accompanied the Commanders Yarey and Tico Herrera in their historic landing in Oriente Province.

Hundreds of us members of Brigade 2506, who participated in the Bay of Pigs, were students as well, including my brothers in arms Felipito Rodón, Marco Tulio García, and Ramoncito Cubeñas, killed in action, martyrs for their country.

It would be impossible to list all of the students that were gunned down by the regime, but we can remember the heroism and the example of Pedro Luis Boitel, the historic leader of FEU in Havana, who died in a hunger strike in the prison cells of Castro-Communism.

We need to remember that there have been thousands of students that protested in massive and historic demonstrations that have over the years shook the foundations of the Dictatorship.

Hundreds of them, even minors, have been prisoners in the Castro's prisons.

Today, the protests that they begin, linked with the abuses of extreme internet fees imposed by ETECSA are, however, only the the tip of the iceberg that is to come.

Abused in every sense and lacking hope and opportunities, the student youth, as the vanguard of the nation, will soon pass the bill to the criminal and corrupt Communist Party and to those that are most culpable for the Cuban tragedy.