31st US-Cuba Friendshipment caravan arrives in Havana

Members of the U.S. interfaith organization Pastors for Peace arrived in Cuba Monday evening to express the solidarity of the people of their country with the island in the face of attempts of internal subversion and threats from Washington.

Upon their arrival at the capital's José Martí International Airport, the director of that group, Gail Walker, said that activists from 20 U.S. states joined the 31st edition of this solidarity caravan to show the overwhelming feeling of the U.S. people concerning Cuba.

She pointed out participants are especially interested in learning about the achievements of this nation in confronting the Covid-19 pandemic and about the virtues of a people who have fought this battle amid the reinforcement of the U.S. blockade.

Carrying lanterns as a symbolic expression of their vision of Cuba as a shining example of the emancipatory aspirations of the peoples, several caravan members demanded from their country a fair relationship with the island and an immediate end to the siege.

The group brought a donation of food and medicine. It was received by Caridad Diego, head of the Office of Religious Affairs of the Communist Party of Cuba, Fernando González, president of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, and the Reverend Izett Samá, of the Martin Luther King Jr Center.

During their stay until November 26, the visitors will carry out an intense program in Havana and Matanzas (West) that includes meetings in women's and workers' organizations and tours of educational institutions and centers of historical and social interest.