Around 10,000 young people from over a hundred countries will march at the Bicentennial Park today in this capital to start the 18th World Festival of Youth and Students.
The agenda of the meeting which will run until Friday includes discussions on topics such as peace in Colombia, the situation of students in Chile, and the process of the Citizen Revolution in Ecuador.
As usual at these festivals that began in 1947 in the former Czechoslovakia, the Anti-Imperialist Tribunal will be installed to judge and try the imperialism.
The cases to be judged cases include that related to the U.S. oil company Chevron, which refuses to take responsibility for the pollution caused its subsidiary Texaco in the Ecuadorian Amazon region.
The unilateral U.S. blockade on Cuba for more than five decades will also be in the dock.
The Cuban delegation, one of the largest after Ecuador, also intended to detail among the youth of the world the case of the five Cuban citizens who were jailed in 1998 in Miami, for monitoring the anti-Cuban terrorist groups in South Florida.
Among the participants is the young Cuban Elian Gonzalez, who was 13 years back center of a legal dispute between Washington and Havana, after surviving a shipwreck in the Straits of Florida in which his mother died.
The opening ceremony, scheduled for this afternoon, will be attended by President of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, cabinet members, mayor of Quito, Augusto Barrera, and several foreign personalities.
The youth festival, fourth to be held in Latin America after the two held in Cuba (1978, 1997) and Venezuela (2005), is dedicated to the leader of the Ecuadorian Liberal Revolution, Eloy Alfaro, the missing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez and the Ghana's Independence Hero kwame Nhkrumah.