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 HAVANA (AP) - Fidel Castro reached out to Cuban youth on Sunday, warning that "If the young people fail, everything will fail" in an acknowledgment that motivating Cubans too young to remember his 1959 revolution is often a struggle.
New generations of Cubans, unlike the 80-year-old Castro and his gray-haired contemporaries, have no direct connection to the guerrilla uprising that toppled dictator Fulgencio Batista. Officials say their communist system will nonetheless long survive its founders — and little has changed on the island since Castro handed power to a provisional government headed by his brother while he recovers from a serious illness.
But these days, many young Cubans are more interested in access to the Internet, music, television and movies than upholding revolutionary ideals.
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