The Committees for the Defense of the Revolution (CDR), the largest mass organization in Cuba, are engaged in a process of structural organization and is renewing its grassroots leadership to make the work more effective.
CDR national coordinator Carlos Rafael Miranda said that during an assembly process, the country renewed about 60 percent of grassroots executive posts, 38.5 percent of which are people under 40 years, and women are more than 50 percent.
The structure of the organization, which assembly 92.6 percent of the population older than 14, is being readapted, to make it more functional to tackle new challenges, the official said.
As the largest mass organization in the nation with more than eight million members, the CDR are called to play an important role in the battle against social indiscipline and illegalities to which the country's leadership has called us, Miranda stressed, cited by Granma newspaper.
The CDR, together with the Federation of Cuban Women, recently launched a call to fight "without trace against social indiscipline," and rescue order, harmony and formal education in the Caribbean nation.
The 8th Congress of the CDR, in which about 500 delegates and guests from around the country will discuss the work done and work strategies for the coming years, will be held on September 26, 27 and 28 at the Conference Center in Havana, the daily reports
The CDR was created on September 28, 1960 by the leader of the Revolution, Fidel Castro.