Havana, Nov 15 (ACN) The 31st US-Cuba IFCO-Pastors for Peace Friendship Caravan arrived Monday evening at Havana’s Jose Marti International airport onboard a plane that for the first time in the history of that solidarity-with-Cuba initiative departed the US city of Miami.
The US activists were welcomed at the air terminal by the president of the Cuban Friendship Institute Fernando Gonzalez, the director of the Communist Party Office for Religious Affairs Caridad Diego and the Reverend Izett Sama, from the Havana-based Martin Luther King Center.
The visiting group is made up of 74 caravanistas headed by Gail Walker, Executive Director of the Inter-religious Foundation for Community Organization (IFCO)-Pastors for Peace, and also daughter of the founding leader of that supportive initiative, the late Reverend Lucius Walker,
whose mortal remains rest in peace in Havana.
Since 1992 when the first Pastors for Peace caravan came to Cuba, the solidarity initiative worked as a bridge of friendship and a sincere gesture by the US people towards their Cuban sisters and brothers.
All Pastors for Peace caravans have defied the US economic, commercial and financial blockade of the island nation, regulations, restrictions and measures, while they have also demanded the complete and definitive end of such a criminal and hostile policy.
The activists will stay here till November 26 as they will tour places of economic, social and cultural interest both in Havana and Matanzas cities. They will also exchange with representatives of Cuban civil society.
