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Juventud Comunista Colombiana

Juventud Comunista Colombiana
Juventud Comunista Colombiana Juventud Comunista Colombiana
Abbreviation	JUCO
Secretary-General	Kevin Siza Iglesias
Founded	July 17, 1932
Headquarters	Bogota, Colombia
Ideology	Communism; Marxism-Leninism; Progressivism ; Anticapitalism ; Feminism ; LGBT movements; Scientific socialism; Marxist humanism ; Bolivarianism
Political position	Leftist
International affiliation	World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY)
Website
	JUCO Facebook ; https://x.com/LA_JUCO ;
	Youth Movement of the Colombian Communist Party

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The Colombian Communist Youth (Spanish: Juventud Comunista Colombiana, JUCO) is a Communist, Marxist-Leninist, and Bolivarian Colombian youth organization, connected to the Colombian Communist Party (PCC). It is a member of the World Federation of Democratic Youth (WFDY), of which it is the Coordinator for the Latin America and Caribbean region^[1]^[2]^[3] After its XVII (17th) National Congress in March of 2023, former student leader of the Colombian Association of University Students (ACEU) and Labor Lawyer, Kevin Siza Iglesias, was elected as Secretary General. [1]

History

Origins

The earliest origins of the JUCO lie in the founding of the Communist Youth League of Colombia (LJCC) on the 17th of July 1932, only two years after the founding of the PCC, headed by Jesús Villegas. The LJCC was an organization guided by the ideology of Marxism-Leninism that oriented its actions towards building unions and agrarian leagues with broad youth participation. It held two congresses without much documentation. The persecution and consequential necessary clandestine nature of communists and communist organizations within Colombia in the following decades led to the complete dissolution of the PCC, which included the LJCC.

The current organization was founded on May 1st 1951 as the Juventud Comunista Colombiana, or JUCO, holding its first conference in secret. During the dictatorship of Gustavo Rojas Pinilla (1953-1957), both the Colombian Communist Party and Colombian Communist Youth, were outlawed.On June 9, 1954 JUCO member Helmo Gómez Lucich, a National University student from Peru, was protesting the murder of fellow student Uriel Gutiérrez when he was shot by the Colombian Battalion. Along with Gómez Lucich, Álvaro Gutiérrez, Rafael Chávez, Hernando Morales, Hernando Ospina, Jorge Chía, Jaime Pacheco, Higo León, and Jaime Moor were also shot. In their memory, the 8th and 9th of June are celebrated as the Days of the Fallen Students. On July 8, 1954 communist and liberal students created the Federation of Colombian Students, drawing broad inspiration from the JUCO, which would lead the student resistance against the Rojas Pinilla regime.

Between 1956 and 1959 three National Union of Colombian Students (UNE) congresses were held, originally uniting communists and liberals, but eventually remaining under the leadership of the JUCO. In 1959 the first National Plenary Meeting of JUCO Leaders was held, aimed at the reorganization, constitutional development of the Communist Youth and the expansion of its national influence .This Plenary Session popularized the 'JUCO' abbreviation, as opposed to the former 'JCC', to refer to the organization. In July of 1961 the Third National Conference of the Communist Youth of Colombia met clandestinely to discuss and approve the "Line of the Masses".

Formation of the current JUCO

From November 29 to December 1 1962 the first Congress of JUCO was held in Bogotá under the slogan, " For the Colombian revolution, lets organize the youth!" (Spanish: “Por la revolución colombiana organicemos la juventud”), and Manuel Cepeda Vargas being elected General Secretary.^[4]

In 1963 the first National University Congress met, which founded the National Univeristy Federation (FUN), where JUCO members were widely represented. In 1964 JUCO carried out a national solidarity campaign with the peasants' resistance in Tolima, where a 'kill quota' was put out and JUCO members Habacuc Trujillo and Hernando González Acosta were killed by the military .^[5]

In 1965, the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of JUCO expelled what they called “factionalists” from within (Francisco Garnica and Fred Kaim, among others) who defended the Chinese Communist Party and its ideology. The expelled would contribute to the founding of the Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist) later in 1965.

On October 11,1966 the Second JUCO Congress was held, its motto was "Winning and organizing the Colombian youth for the revolutionary struggle" (Spanish: “Ganar y organizar la juventud colombiana para las luchas revolucionarias”) where they stressed the need to 'proletarianize' the organization's ranks, as a majority of its members were students.

The fall of “real socialism” and PCC Crisis strongly affected the JUCO. By 1991, about half of it's Central Executive Committee resigned from membership and several regional branches disbanded. An arduous effort of reconstruction began, confirmed by the 8th Congress ('For the right to be Young', September 18-20, 1992) and lasting until the 9th.

The reconstructive and unitary effort allowed the National Assembly of University Students (April 6-10, 1995) to be held at the National University, where around a thousand students from all the country's universities participated. The efforts also converged with the creation of the Colombian Association of University Students (ACEU) at the National Congress of University Students in Cartagena during May 22-28, 1998, a student union organization with a JUCO presence, among other liberal and leftist entities.

In 1999, the 10th Congress declares the organization to have been successfully stabilized.

21st Century

The 11th Congress, lasting November 8th to 11th, presented the “Youth for a New Homeland” Platform (Spanish: "Plataforma Juvenil por la Patria Nueva"). The platform was oriented towards unity of democratic youth, based on 7 points:

Youth Unity....

for democratic change
against imperialism and militarism
for the right to youth organization and participation
for public education and and a dignified life for youth
for las reivindicaciones culturales deportivas y culturales,
for opportunities for rural youth
against all types of discrimination

these points guided the participation of the JUCO in the youth spaces of the Social and Political Front, a since dissolved left-wing political coalition in Colombia which included the Colombian Communist Party.

The 12th Congress, held in December of 2005, (“Unity our banner, revolution our struggle") maintained the “Youth for a New Homeland” Platform while linking it to the new unitary perspective of the PCC, united with the Alternative Democratic Pole (PDA) in the Great Democratic Coalition.

Colombian Communist Youth is one of the most important youth political organizations in Colombia, and- at some point- had extensive participation in youth groups. Most of it's mass influence is centered on the study body of public universities, high school students, youth groups in urban areas, collectives of young workers, and youth in the agrarian sector within zones of historical PCC influence.

In 2008, its 13th National Congress ("In the struggle for democratic peace, there is the youth of Colombia") was held, it's main bets revolved around strengthening the calls for a negotiated exit in the Colombian Conflict.

Currently, the JUCO is governed by the decisions of its 14th National Congress, held in December 2011 in Bogotá. It's synthesis is contained in its slogan: "Unity in the streets: for hope, peace, and socialism."

In 2012, they participated in the social and political movement 'Marcha Patriótica'. Being the largest youth organization within the movement, they made up the youth sector of Marcha Patriótica alongside the Federation of University Students (FEU) and and other groups of young people. In 2014, following the 2013 return of the Patriotic Union's legal status and their celebration at it's Fifth Congress where they decided to rebuild their similar youth group: Union of Young Patriots (UJP), JUCO held it's 15th National Congress.

In August 2018, they celebrated their 16th National Congress in the city of Ibagué, which slogan was "Let's join together for hope, democracy, and peace".^[6]

Recently, JUCO has been the subject of multiple accusations in cases of gender-based violence involving some of its members and have been publicly working to fix the issue. To this end, the organization has been working on feminist training and strengthening of the political line to facilitate the purging of sexist 'machista' and patriarchal practices in it's ranks. This path created to draw attention to and prevent gender based violence continues to be nurtured within the organization.^{[citation needed]}

In recent years, the JUCO has mobilized to accompany citizens in various exercises of protest in numerous regions following a strong onslaught against social leaders in Colombia and the continued presence of strengthening paramilitaries. They have also participated in different strikes carried out throughout Colombia. ^[7]^{[citation needed]}

Notable Members

Important personalities in Colombian political history have passed through its ranks, such as Manuel Cepeda Vargas, Jaime Pardo Leal, Jaime Bateman,^[8] Alfonso Cano^[9] José Antequera, Yira Castro, Henry Millán González, Jaime Caycedo Turriago, Pedro Julio Mahecha^[10], Gabriel Becerra, and Patricia Ariza.

References

^ "Partido Comunista Colombiano" [Colombian Communist Party | Victims Unit]. Unidad para las Víctimas - gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
^ María Valencia, Ana. "En las entrañas de la JUCO" [In the bowels of the JUCO.]. www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Lizarazo, Yuldor. "Estatutos JUCO Ultimos_copy | Democracia | Comunismo" [JUCO statutes latest copy | Democracy | Communism]. Scribd (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Herrera, Dario Villamizar (12 September 2017). Las guerrillas en Colombia: Una historia desde los orígenes hasta los confines [Guerrillas in Colombia: A History from the Origins to the Ends] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia. ISBN 978-958-8931-97-5. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ La paz en Colombia [Peace in Colombia] (in Spanish). Cubadebate. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "Declaración Política Juventud Comunista Colombiana" [Political Declaration of the Colombian Communist Youth]. www.pacocol.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ "La justicia dilata libertad para Andrés y Bremmen" [Justice delays liberty for Andrés y Bremmen]. Semanario Voz. 4 November 2022. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.
^ Fattal, Alexander L. (30 April 2019). Guerrilla marketing: contrainsurgencia y capitalismo en Colombia [Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia] (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad del Rosario. ISBN 978-958-784-211-1. Retrieved 11 July 2020.
^ Andrés, Felipe de Pablos; Fernanda, Gómez, Luisa (30 September 2017). Testigos olvidados: Periodismo y paz en Colombia [Forgotten Witnesses: Journalism and Peace in Colombia] (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad del Rosario. ISBN 978-958-738-961-6. Retrieved 11 July 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
^ Carrillo, Vladimir; Kucharz, Tom (2006). Colombia: terrorismo de estado : testimonios de la guerra sucia contra los movimientos populares [Colombia: state terrorism: testimonies of the dirty war against popular movements] (in Spanish). Icaria Editorial. ISBN 978-84-7426-906-2. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[1] "Partido Comunista Colombiano" [Colombian Communist Party | Victims Unit]. Unidad para las Víctimas - gov.co (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 July 2024.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)

[2] María Valencia, Ana. "En las entrañas de la JUCO" [In the bowels of the JUCO.]. www.vanguardia.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[3] Lizarazo, Yuldor. "Estatutos JUCO Ultimos_copy | Democracia | Comunismo" [JUCO statutes latest copy | Democracy | Communism]. Scribd (in Spanish). Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[4] Herrera, Dario Villamizar (12 September 2017). Las guerrillas en Colombia: Una historia desde los orígenes hasta los confines [Guerrillas in Colombia: A History from the Origins to the Ends] (in Spanish). Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia. ISBN 978-958-8931-97-5. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[5] La paz en Colombia [Peace in Colombia] (in Spanish). Cubadebate. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[6] "Declaración Política Juventud Comunista Colombiana" [Political Declaration of the Colombian Communist Youth]. www.pacocol.org (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 11 July 2020. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[7] "La justicia dilata libertad para Andrés y Bremmen" [Justice delays liberty for Andrés y Bremmen]. Semanario Voz. 4 November 2022. Archived from the original on 5 July 2024. Retrieved 15 July 2024.

[8] Fattal, Alexander L. (30 April 2019). Guerrilla marketing: contrainsurgencia y capitalismo en Colombia [Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia] (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad del Rosario. ISBN 978-958-784-211-1. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

[9] Andrés, Felipe de Pablos; Fernanda, Gómez, Luisa (30 September 2017). Testigos olvidados: Periodismo y paz en Colombia [Forgotten Witnesses: Journalism and Peace in Colombia] (in Spanish). Editorial Universidad del Rosario. ISBN 978-958-738-961-6. Retrieved 11 July 2020.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)

[10] Carrillo, Vladimir; Kucharz, Tom (2006). Colombia: terrorismo de estado : testimonios de la guerra sucia contra los movimientos populares [Colombia: state terrorism: testimonies of the dirty war against popular movements] (in Spanish). Icaria Editorial. ISBN 978-84-7426-906-2. Retrieved 11 July 2020.

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+The '''Colombian Communist Youth''' ([[Spanish language|Spanish:]] ''Juventud Comunista Colombiana, '''JUCO''')'' is a [[Communism|Communist]], [[Marxism–Leninism|Marxist-Leninist]], and [[Bolivarianism|Bolivarian]] [[Colombia|Colombian]] youth organization, connected to the [[Colombian Communist Party]] (PCC).  It is a member of the [[World Federation of Democratic Youth]] (WFDY), of which it is the Coordinator for the [[Latin America]] and [[Caribbean]] region<ref>{{Cite web |title=Partido Comunista Colombiano |trans-title=Colombian Communist Party {{!}} Victims Unit |url=https://www.unidadvictimas.gov.co/es/partido-comunista-colombiano/14105 |url-status=live |access-date=15 July 2024 |website=Unidad para las Víctimas - gov.co |language=es-CO}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=María Valencia |first=Ana |title=En las entrañas de la JUCO |trans-title=In the bowels of the JUCO. |url=https://www.vanguardia.com/deportes/futbol-local/en-las-entranas-de-la-juco-DYVL24050 |access-date=11 July 2020 |website=www.vanguardia.com |language=es-CO}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Lizarazo |first=Yuldor |title=Estatutos JUCO Ultimos_copy {{!}} Democracia {{!}} Comunismo |trans-title=JUCO statutes latest copy {{!}} Democracy {{!}} Communism |url=https://es.scribd.com/document/61979066/Estatutos-JUCO-Ultimos-copy |access-date=11 July 2020 |website=Scribd |language=es}}</ref> After its XVII (17th) National Congress in March of 2023, former student leader of the Colombian Association of University Students (ACEU) and Labor Lawyer, Kevin Siza Iglesias, was elected as Secretary General. [https://semanariovoz.com/una-juco-para-los-nuevos-tiempos/]
+== History ==
+=== Origins ===
+The earliest origins of the JUCO lie in the founding of the '''Communist Youth League of Colombia''' (LJCC) on the 17th of July 1932, only two years after the founding of the PCC, headed by Jesús Villegas. The  LJCC was an organization guided by the ideology of Marxism-Leninism that oriented its actions towards building [[Trade union|unions]] and agrarian leagues with broad youth participation. It held two congresses without much documentation. The persecution and consequential necessary clandestine nature of communists and communist organizations within Colombia in the following decades led to the complete dissolution of the PCC, which included the LJCC.
+The current organization was founded on May 1st 1951 as the ''Juventud Comunista Colombiana'', or JUCO, holding its first conference in secret. During the dictatorship of [[Gustavo Rojas Pinilla]] (1953-1957), both the Colombian Communist Party and Colombian Communist Youth, were outlawed.On June 9, 1954  JUCO member Helmo Gómez Lucich, a [[National University of Colombia|National University]] student from [[Peru]], was protesting the murder of fellow student Uriel Gutiérrez when he was shot by the [[Colombian Battalion]]. Along with Gómez Lucich, Álvaro Gutiérrez, Rafael Chávez, Hernando Morales, Hernando Ospina, Jorge Chía, Jaime Pacheco, Higo León, and Jaime Moor were also shot. In their memory, the 8th and 9th of June are celebrated as the Days of the Fallen Students. On July 8, 1954 communist and liberal students  created the Federation of Colombian Students, drawing broad inspiration from the JUCO, which would lead the student resistance against the Rojas Pinilla regime.
+Between 1956 and 1959  three '''National Union of Colombian Students''' (UNE) congresses were held, originally uniting communists and liberals, but eventually remaining under the leadership of the JUCO. In 1959 the first National Plenary Meeting of JUCO Leaders was held, aimed at the reorganization, constitutional development of the Communist Youth and the expansion of its national influence .This Plenary Session popularized the 'JUCO' abbreviation, as opposed to the former 'JCC', to refer to the organization. In July of 1961 the Third National Conference of the Communist Youth of Colombia met clandestinely to discuss and approve the "Line of the Masses".
+=== Formation of the current JUCO ===
+From November 29 to December 1 1962 the first Congress of JUCO was held in Bogotá  under the slogan, " For the Colombian revolution, lets organize the youth!"  (Spanish: ''“Por la revolución colombiana organicemos la juventud”''), and [[Manuel Cepeda Vargas]] being elected General Secretary.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Herrera |first=Dario Villamizar |url=https://books.google.com.co/books?id=da82DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT694&lpg=PT694&dq=Juventud+Comunista+Colombiana&source=bl&ots=NJeWhZLD_5&sig=ACfU3U1EAQpM02JsSOdqJ7dmFcpwp1A0XQ&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiHpYzrm8TqAhUwhOAKHap4COw4HhDoATAHegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Juventud%20Comunista%20Colombiana&f=false |title=Las guerrillas en Colombia: Una historia desde los orígenes hasta los confines |date=12 September 2017 |publisher=Penguin Random House Grupo Editorial Colombia |isbn=978-958-8931-97-5 |language=es |trans-title=Guerrillas in Colombia: A History from the Origins to the Ends |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>
+In 1963 the first National University Congress met, which founded the National Univeristy Federation (FUN), where JUCO members were widely represented. In 1964 JUCO carried out a national solidarity campaign with the peasants' resistance in [[Tolima Department|Tolima]], where a 'kill quota' was put out and JUCO members Habacuc Trujillo and Hernando González Acosta were killed by the military .<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com.co/books?id=eU2P7nRjNLwC&pg=PA69&lpg=PA69&dq=Juventud+Comunista+Colombiana&source=bl&ots=K6DQwRDwm6&sig=ACfU3U3vKiQj12tScqtMJ45t00kb74plhA&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwie7JGpnsTqAhVQMt8KHbDODF04PBDoATAGegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=Juventud%20Comunista%20Colombiana&f=false |title=La paz en Colombia |publisher=Cubadebate |language=es |trans-title=Peace in Colombia |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>
+In 1965, the Fifth Plenary Meeting of the Central Committee of JUCO expelled what they called “factionalists” from within (Francisco Garnica and Fred Kaim, among others) who defended the [[Chinese Communist Party]] and its [[Maoism|ideology]]. The expelled would contribute to the founding of the [[Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist–Leninist)|Communist Party of Colombia (Marxist-Leninist)]] later in 1965.
+On October 11,1966 the Second  JUCO Congress was held, its motto was "Winning and organizing the Colombian youth for the revolutionary struggle" (Spanish: ''“Ganar y organizar la juventud colombiana para las luchas revolucionarias”'') where they stressed the need to [[Proletarianization|'proletarianize']]  the organization's ranks, as a majority of its members were students.
+The fall of “real socialism” and PCC Crisis strongly affected the JUCO. By 1991, about half of it's Central Executive Committee resigned from membership and several regional branches disbanded. An arduous effort of reconstruction began, confirmed by the 8th Congress ('For the right to be Young', September 18-20, 1992) and lasting until the 9th.
+The reconstructive and unitary effort allowed the National Assembly of University Students (April 6-10, 1995) to be held at the National University, where around a thousand students from all the country's universities participated. The efforts also converged with the creation of the Colombian Association of University Students (ACEU) at the National Congress of University Students in Cartagena during May 22-28, 1998, a student union organization with a JUCO presence, among other liberal and leftist entities.
+In 1999, the 10th Congress declares the organization to have been successfully stabilized.
+=== 21st Century ===
+The 11th Congress, lasting November 8th to 11th, presented the “Youth for a New Homeland” Platform (Spanish: ''"Plataforma Juvenil por la Patria Nueva"''). The platform was oriented towards unity of democratic youth, based on 7 points:
+Youth Unity....
+# for democratic change
+# against [[imperialism]] and [[militarism]]
+# for the right to youth organization and [[Youth participation|participation]]
+# for [[public education]] and and a dignified life for youth
+# for las reivindicaciones culturales deportivas y culturales,
+# for opportunities for [[Rural area|rural]] youth
+# against all types of discrimination
+these points guided the participation of the JUCO in the youth spaces of the Social and Political Front, a since dissolved left-wing political coalition in Colombia which included the Colombian Communist Party.
+The 12th Congress, held in December of 2005, (“Unity our banner, revolution our struggle") maintained the “Youth for a New Homeland” Platform while linking it to the new unitary perspective of the PCC, united with the [[Alternative Democratic Pole]] (PDA) in the Great Democratic Coalition.
+Colombian Communist Youth is one of the most important youth political organizations in Colombia, and- at some point- had extensive participation in youth groups. Most of it's mass influence is centered on the study body of public universities, high school students, youth groups in  urban areas, collectives of young workers, and youth in the agrarian sector within zones of historical PCC influence.
+In 2008, its 13th National Congress ("In the struggle for democratic peace, there is the youth of Colombia") was held, it's main bets revolved around strengthening the calls for a negotiated exit in the [[Colombian Conflict]].
+Currently, the JUCO is governed by the decisions of its 14th National Congress, held in December 2011 in Bogotá. It's  synthesis is contained in its slogan: "Unity in the streets: for hope, peace, and socialism."
+In 2012, they participated in the social and political movement 'Marcha Patriótica'. Being the largest youth organization within the movement, they made up the youth sector of Marcha Patriótica alongside the Federation of University Students (FEU) and and other groups of young people. In 2014, following the 2013 return of the [[Patriotic Union (Colombia)|Patriotic Union]]'s legal status  and their celebration at it's Fifth Congress where they decided to rebuild their similar youth group: Union of Young Patriots (UJP), JUCO held it's 15th National Congress.
+In August 2018, they celebrated their 16th National Congress in the city of [[Ibagué]], which slogan was  "Let's join together for hope, democracy, and peace".<ref>{{Cite web |title=Declaración Política Juventud Comunista Colombiana |trans-title=Political Declaration of the Colombian Communist Youth |url=http://www.pacocol.org/index.php/noticias/nacional/5744-declaracion-politica-juventud-comunista-colombiana |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200711065026/http://www.pacocol.org/index.php/noticias/nacional/5744-declaracion-politica-juventud-comunista-colombiana |archive-date=11 July 2020 |access-date=11 July 2020 |website=www.pacocol.org |language=es}}</ref>
+Recently, JUCO has been the subject of multiple accusations in cases of gender-based violence involving some of its members and have been publicly working to fix the issue. To this end, the organization has been working on    feminist training and strengthening of the political line to facilitate the purging of  sexist 'machista' and patriarchal practices in it's ranks. This path created to draw attention to and prevent gender based violence continues to be nurtured within the organization.{{Citation needed|date=July 2024|reason=included in translation. no reason cited in original.}}
+In recent years, the JUCO has mobilized to accompany citizens in various exercises of protest in numerous regions following a strong onslaught against social leaders in Colombia and the continued presence of strengthening paramilitaries. They have also participated in different strikes carried out throughout Colombia. <ref>{{Cite web |date=4 November 2022 |title=La justicia dilata libertad para Andrés y Bremmen |trans-title=Justice delays liberty for Andrés y Bremmen |url=https://semanariovoz.com/la-justicia-dilata-libertad-para-andres-y-bremmen/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240705103950/https://semanariovoz.com/la-justicia-dilata-libertad-para-andres-y-bremmen/ |archive-date=5 July 2024 |access-date=15 July 2024 |website=Semanario Voz}}</ref>{{Citation needed|date=July 2024|reason=included in translation.no reason cited in original.}}
+== Notable Members ==
+Important personalities in Colombian political history have passed through its ranks, such as [[Manuel Cepeda Vargas]], [[Jaime Pardo Leal]], [[Jaime Bateman Cayón|Jaime Bateman]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fattal |first=Alexander L. |url=https://books.google.com.co/books?id=UK2uDwAAQBAJ&pg=PT99&lpg=PT99&dq=Juventud+Comunista+Colombiana&source=bl&ots=woLXYl6zA2&sig=ACfU3U2q07hAk5YRSS2xs3TopBTrVXxdMg&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik4ZyKnsTqAhWpc98KHZv1DkI4KBDoATABegQICRAB#v=onepage&q=Juventud%20Comunista%20Colombiana&f=false |title=Guerrilla marketing: contrainsurgencia y capitalismo en Colombia |date=30 April 2019 |publisher=Editorial Universidad del Rosario |isbn=978-958-784-211-1 |language=es |trans-title=Guerrilla Marketing: Counterinsurgency and Capitalism in Colombia |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref> [[Alfonso Cano]]<ref>{{Cite book |last=Andrés |first=Felipe de Pablos |url=https://books.google.com.co/books?id=6e9GDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA15&lpg=PA15&dq=Juventud+Comunista+Colombiana&source=bl&ots=Rr0gBtO9B-&sig=ACfU3U25kypr3UjMzwjVuDk7WJHZrNFiXQ&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik4ZyKnsTqAhWpc98KHZv1DkI4KBDoATADegQICBAB#v=onepage&q=Juventud%20Comunista%20Colombiana&f=false |title=Testigos olvidados: Periodismo y paz en Colombia |last2=Fernanda |first2=Gómez, Luisa |date=30 September 2017 |publisher=Editorial Universidad del Rosario |isbn=978-958-738-961-6 |language=es |trans-title=Forgotten Witnesses: Journalism and Peace in Colombia |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref> José Antequera, Yira Castro, Henry Millán González, Jaime Caycedo Turriago, Pedro Julio Mahecha<ref>{{Cite book |last=Carrillo |first=Vladimir |url=https://books.google.com.co/books?id=fDO3VszzF84C&pg=PA224&lpg=PA224&dq=Juventud+Comunista+Colombiana&source=bl&ots=tSPxENwblm&sig=ACfU3U2drxiESuaDZLR7GviowBe-qkepZw&hl=es-419&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwik4ZyKnsTqAhWpc98KHZv1DkI4KBDoATAJegQIChAB#v=onepage&q=Juventud%20Comunista%20Colombiana&f=false |title=Colombia: terrorismo de estado : testimonios de la guerra sucia contra los movimientos populares |last2=Kucharz |first2=Tom |date=2006 |publisher=Icaria Editorial |isbn=978-84-7426-906-2 |language=es |trans-title=Colombia: state terrorism: testimonies of the dirty war against popular movements |access-date=11 July 2020}}</ref>, Gabriel Becerra, and  [[Patricia Ariza]].
+== See Also ==
+* [[Colombian Communist Party]]
+* [[World Federation of Democratic Youth]] (WFDY)
+* [[Colombian conflict|Colombian Conflict]]
+* [[Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia]] (FARC)
+* [[National Liberation Army (Colombia)|National Liberation Army]] (ELN)
+* [[19th of April Movement]] (M-19)
+* [[La Violencia]] (1948-1958)
+== References ==
+<references></references>
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+[[Category:Youth wings of political parties in Colombia]]
+[[Category:Youth wings of communist parties]]
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