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 News from Around the Americas | July 2007 
Solidarity Caravan is on Its Way to Cuba
 Granma International
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Tampico, Mexico Poems and songs welcomed the arrival in this port of the Mexican state of Tamaulipas of the 18th U.S.-Cuba Solidarity Caravan, which with its message of friendship is traveling today to the island.
To welcome this, more than 300 people gathered last night in the Plaza de la Libertad, in an event with the participation of local artists who got everyone present dancing with infectious rhythms of son and rock.
The almost 150 caravan members arrived close to midnight, and immediately headed for the docks to unload the more than 60 tons of humanitarian aid with which they are challenging the blockade imposed by Washington on Havana.
Vνctor Vargas, coordinator in Mexico of the group Pastors for Peace, explained to Prensa Latina that the activists from the United States, Canada and other nations, will be traveling to Cuba this time by airplane, and would be joined by dozens of Mexicans.
Vargas explained that the previous day, as they were crossing over the border into the city of Reynosa, in the same state, U.S. Customs authorities seized 12 computers that were part of the aid in the caravan, led by the Reverend Lucius Walker.
Pastors for Peace sponsors the caravan to challenge the economic, commercial and financial blockade imposed by the United States on Cuba, as well as the restrictions on travel to the island enforced by the government of George W. Bush.
US Govt Tries to Hinder Solidarity with Cuba
Prensa Latina
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Agents of Homeland Security of the US detained today members of the 18th Solidarity Caravan to Cuba on the border with Mexico.
Federal officers checked the vehicles of the caravan members and confiscated several computers, part of the shipment of donations destined to the Cuban people.
In the face of the action of US authorities, about 150 US citizens and civil activists of half a dozen countries reaffirmed their will to challenge the US economic blockade against the Caribbean nation.
This is a battle of David against Goliath and Goliath knows he is losing, commented reverend Luis Barrios, member of the religious foundation Pastors for Peace, group that described the siege on Cuba as immoral.
They try to intimidate us with that completely symbolic confiscation, but we all know that the power of reason will prevail, added Barrios in a press release to which Prensa Latina had access.
The mission of Pastors for Peace is formed by a dozen vehicles, about 150 activists and around 90 tons of donations, mainly medical articles which they expect to carry to the island by the end of this week.
Two weeks ago, the administration of president George W. Bush also detained in the Canadian border a lot of medical help for Cuba collected in the cities of Vancouver, Toronto and Winnipeg.
We are going to protest the decision of Homeland Security and they will have to revise their resolution to strip us from our computers, stressed Reverend Lucius Walker, Executive Director of Pastors for Peace and leader of a wide-reaching movement of solidarity with Cuba.
Pastors for Peace is a society attached to the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO) which has worked for social justice in the United States since 1967 and supports the Cuban people since 1990. |
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