COMITE CUBANO PRO-CONGRESO DE LA JUVENTUD LATINO-AMERICANA (CUBAN PRO-LATIN AMERICAN JUVENILE CONGRESS COMMITTEE)

• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP82-00457R001000660010-1
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 9, 2016
• Document Release Date: February 11, 1999
• Sequence Number: 10
• Publication Date: November 7, 1947
• Content Type: IR

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University Student Federation*;
Social Youth (which follows the inspirations of the Partido
Socialists Popular);
Juvenile Commission of the Confederation de Trabajadores Cubans;
Juvenile Section of the Casa de is Cultura (pro-Spanish Communist
front organization);
co Evangelic Youth;
Association of Youths' Hope for Fraternity;
Association of Arts and Professions School Alumni;
Q; Juvenile Commission of Cuban Societies, which is composed of
cc elements of the colored race (negros and mulattos);
Cuban People's Party Youth (Orthodox);
Other juvenile organizations
(all offices located in the National University of Havana).
2.. The Comite Cubano Pro-Congreso de is Juventi:-d Latino-Americana is under the
leadership of Wilfredo Hernandez. In February of 1946, Hernandez appeared at the
Regional Workers' Federation at Sagua is Grande, where he reported on the World
Youth Congress which he attended in London as a delegate of 4ie Cuban Youth.
At this same meeting, Hernandez stated that he and Flavio Bra to, leader of the
Socialist Youth, were jointly responsible for the success of the World Youth
Congress program to unite all Cuban youths. On 18 July 1947, Hernandez also
spoke at merioriel services organized by the Casa de la Cultura at the Workers
Palace.
3. This committee declared itself against the sugar law passed tf the United States
Congress at its last session in 1947. The committee represents a variety of
tendencies in Cuban political life; however, it s:'iould be noted that all elements
have a common policy of anti-imperialism? The definition of anti-imperialism
in the minds of most Latin Americans, according to source, is synonymous with
anti-Americanism.
4. It is further reported that the Comite Cubano Pro-Congreso Juventud :Latino-
Americana will be represented at the Latin American Youth Congress which, it is
believed, will be held in Santiago, Chile, during 1948.? The Latin American
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Comite Cubano Pro-Congreso de is Juventud
Latino-Americana (Cuban Pro-Latin American
DIST? 7 _F November 1947
Juvenile Congress Committee)
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Youth Congress is a manifestation of this effort.
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Comment: Present leader of the University Federation is
Enrique Ovares Herrera, previously reported by a different source as a
member of the 1946 Council of the International Union of Students.
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