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Students killed in independence
struggle honored
• November 27, Cuban youth marched
from the University’s Grand Stairway to the site in
Old Havana where, 143 years ago, eight medical
students were shot
Arlin Alberty Loforte
They
are young; they are students. They marched to
remember eight students, much like themselves, who
were summarily shot for their love of the country.
 This
commemoration emphasized the legacy left by the
medical students, seen today in the solidarity and
internationalism of Cuban doctors saving lives in
every corner of the world.
Torture and repression were condemned, and support
expressed for justice in the case of 43 students
from the Ayotzinapa Normal School in Mexico, who
have disappeared.
Leading the march was Yuniasky Crespo, first
secretary of the Union of Young Communists’ National
Committee; Yosvany Montano Garrido, president of the
Federation of University Students (FEU); as well as
authorities from the ministries of Public Health and
Higher Education.
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