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and participation in unauthorized socioeconomic
activities are the response to exclusionary, dominating and oppressive structures that prevent
young people from demonstrating their skill and
potential within what could be a freer space that
acknowledged their rights.
The ever increasing and general tendency of Cuban youth to migrate also deserves attention.
They leave to seek in other latitudes the spaces
and perspectives that are denied them in their
own.
This desperate or impulsive search, or the passive
and apathetic wait to embark on one—by leaving
the island—represent the only strategy for success or development, which has a sort of invalidating effect on these young people and how they
view and act in response to their society’s problems and needs. Thousands of young Cubans are
wandering the planet’s many corners, often
caught up somewhere between having a legitimate desire to personally develop themselves and
feeling an insurmountable nostalgia for a country
that never produced many emigrants.
Youth is an important time of professional alternatives and professional, social and personal definitions, for which rea 6