Pastors for Peace to Continue Fighting against U.S. Blockade

The Executive Director of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization IFCO-Pastors for Peace, Gail Walker, assured that such institution will continue fighting against the U.S. economic blockade against Cuba.

'It is very difficult to think what will happen in the future due to the unpredictable decisions of the U.S. current administration but we will continue fighting against the blockade,' Walker reaffirmed to Prensa Latina.

'Youngsters of our institution and the most veteran are clear about what we are going to do, we are going to join to return to Cuba, we want to continue organizing delegations to this country', the main leader of Pastors for Peace stressed.

Gail is Reverend Lucius Walker´s daughter, his father´s initiative and friendship with the leader Fidel Castro triggered these solidarity trips to Cuba since 1992, coordinated in Cuba by the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP).

The members of the 30th caravan of Pastors for Peace visited this region, where the best preserved wetland of the insular Caribbean is, located south of the province of Matanzas and about 150 kilometers southeast of Havana.

The visit included a tour of the Memorial Library Anniversary of the Carbonera Dinner with Fidel, located in Soplillar, in which on December 24, 1959, Fidel Castro dined with humble coal farmers of the area.

They also visited the Playa Giron Museum in that homonymous town of the Bay of Pigs, dedicated to the victory of the people in April 1961 against a mercenary force of 1,500 men, perpetuating the first great U.S. military defeat in Latin America.

The journey through the swamp area began in Palpite town, headquaters of the community cultural project Korimakao, founded 27 years ago, which is in charge of taking the different artistic manifestations to the most remote areas of this wild biosphere reserve.