About fifty works participate in the 1st Youth Colloquium Al Sol de la Gloria (In the Sun of Glory), a tribute to the victims of the Barbados Crime, on the occasion of the 45th anniversary of the bombing of the Cubana de Aviación ship with 73 passengers aboard that fell into the sea near that Caribbean country.

Las Tunas, Cuba.- Sponsored by the José Martí Youth Movement (MJM), the José Martí Cultural Society, and the Young Communists League (UJC), the meeting is attended, virtually, by participants from a dozen provinces, among which Villa Clara has the largest representation; by sectors, students of Medical Sciences predominate.

Roynel Reyes Ávila, the president of the MJM in the province, said that the event, which takes place on the morning of this October 6, Day of the Victims of Terrorism in Cuba, will reward the essays that best approach the subject in the evening hours.

He also stressed that the Colloquium is a space to once again raise the demand for justice of the Cuban people, which has not ceased since the vile sabotage occurred, whose leaders were the Cuban-born terrorists Luis Posada Carriles and Orlando Bosch Ávila, never tried and always protected in the United States of America.

In this regard, he pointed out that the meeting seeks to delve into the interiors of the Mártires de Barbados memorial museum (Martyrs of Barbados) and its local and national importance; the life and work of Carlos Leyva and Leonardo MacKenzie, the two young fencers from Las Tunas killed in the attack; the fight against terrorism in Cuba; and the resonance of the words of Fidel Castro Ruz in the farewell of the mourning to the victims.

Prestigious personalities from Las Tunas preside over the jury of the Colloquium, who join forces with the group of "Martyrs of Barbados", which at this time, every year, carries out various activities as part of a battle that the people of this Island do not abandon. For Cubans, October is a month of denunciation, and the fight against terrorism and impunity; an appeal to memory.