Havana, August 8 (RHC) -- The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR) rejected today the U.S. International Development Agency's (USAID) use of Latin American youth to subvert social order in Cuba.

The position of the Cuban organization was very clear after revelations by the U.S. Associated Press news agency of details about U.S. government actions organized and financed through USAID, secretly sending Latin American youth with subversive purposes.

Over eight million CDR members condemned the destabilization maneuvers aimed at provoking changes in our political order, an organization statement said.

Young people were sent by USAID using a cover of health care and civic programs to carry out actions and bring about political destabilization, especially to foster youth activism against the Cuban revolutionary process.

“Despite suffering a violent economic blockade by the United States, our reality speaks for itself,” the CDR statement says, citing as examples Cuba's social achievements, the dozens of thousands of internationalist health and sports collaborators who are solidarity models in the world.

The CDR's objectives are to mobilize the Cuban people to work on the defense of the Revolution and socialism conquests with direct focus on individuals and families in the community.