Wearing their red Communist Pioneer neckerchiefs, a string of young boys and girls recited poems they wrote for Elian, dubbed Cuba's  boy hero  and  symbolic child,  and for Marti, commonly known on the island as Cuba's  teacher  and  apostle.  The Communist Party daily Granma compared Elian with revolutionary icon Ernesto  Che  Guevara and said the boy  has been converted forever into a symbol of the crimes and injustices that imperialism is capable of (committing) against an innocent.   
 Verb: committing
Yes