This Friday the World Anti-Fascist Youth Congress was inaugurated at the facilities of the La Carlota Convention Center, in the state of Miranda. The welcome to the delegates from more than 72 countries was led by the Minister of Youth, Grecia Colmenares, who in her speech highlighted the fundamental objective of the aforementioned congress, which is to find “the strategies that are necessary to defeat the common enemy.” that humanity has that today is called fascism.”
Likewise, he reiterated that today’s students and young people in Venezuela have among their tasks to build an agenda for peace, and recalled that “as part of President Nicolás Maduro’s policies, young people are committed to building a multipolar world, in which Let all of humanity guarantee conditions of mutual respect and thus achieve a world free of fascism,” he stressed.
He stressed the need to maintain the unity of people to fight against fascism. “We must internationalize the struggle and hope, the future of humanity depends today on our fight against fascism,” he said.
He recalled that “our continent does not escape the horror story that fascism has left in the entire world, and that in the last century countries like Chile, Uruguay, Paraguay, Argentina, experienced the cruelest dictatorships due to that Plan Cóndor, established by the North American empire.”
He highlighted that “Venezuela was not the exception, we saw how young students who opposed the North American empire, the surrenderist governments, disappeared, criminalized and murdered, and it was not until 1998 when Venezuela saw the light, with the arrival of Commander Hugo Chávez. ”.
Finally, he emphasized that “today more than ever we are fully aware that we must defend our countries, the sovereignty of our homelands, we must go to the defense of Mother Earth, which is the defense of life itself, because today we defend the right to life, the right to humanity, the right to peace, the right to self-determination of peoples,” he concluded.
Mozambique
The representative of the youth of Mozambique, Dario Camal, also participated in the activity, who stated before the plenary session that although the fight against imperialism is not easy, “we have something much stronger, which is the determination to change the course of history.”
When referring to his continent, Camal assured that all of Africa will not be remembered as a victim of the crises that successively occur in that part of the planet due to colonialism, but rather that “we will be remembered for hope” and for the capacity for “resistance in the face of colonial forces.
