Prensa Latina: Defiant Pastors Crusade to Cuba

Defiant Pastors Crusade to Cuba

Havana, Jul 8 (Prensa Latina) The 17th Pastors for Peace Caravan is arriving in Cuba Saturday with its message of solidarity, in the face of the new measures the US government has taken to try to wipe out the Cuba Revolution and its people.

The caravan members are arriving in Havana after having traveled throughout North America condemning the anti-Cuba US blockade and gathering humanitarian aid for Island.

The organization, grouping friends of Cuba from the US, Canada, and other countries, opposes the US economic war against the Cuban people, which has caused over 82 billion dollars in losses.

Led by Rev. Lucius Walter, the Pastors for Peace Caravan is arriving in Cuba at a time when the White House has announced the second report of the so called Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, with new aggressive acts and the ratification the Helms-Burton and Torricelli Laws, the blockade, and other interference on the Island.

The new US regulations ban sending humanitarian articles to Cuban churches and allow for creation an 80 million-dollar fund to support aggressive anti-Cuban sectors.

Challenging all Cuba travel restrictions, the caravan members will be welcomed by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples.

They plan to meet with relatives of the five Cubans unfairly imprisoned in the US for fighting terrorism, tour the country´s west to get acquainted with the national reality, visit the Latin American School of Medicine and get information on special education for blind, autistic and mentally-disabled children, among other activities.