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Havana, July 13 (Prensa Latina).- Reverend Lucius Walker, leader of the US inter-religious foundation Pastors for Peace, said in this capital that the US government could not stop that organization’s solidarity effort with Cuba.
Walker, who is visiting Cuba, arrived in Havana heading the 17th Pastors for Peace Caravan, with members from US, Canada, Scotland, Germany, Mexico, Denmark, Sweden and England, after touring over 120 cities of his country collecting aid for the island.
The arrival of these caravan members coincided with the White House spreading of the second report of the so-called Commission for Assistance to a Free Cuba, an attempt to harden the blockade with new aggression and interference in this country.
'President George W. Bush won’t stop the Pastors for Peace Caravan, or the Venceremos Brigade,' assured the US reverend, adding that if they are detained the movement will continue growing.
'If the US government seizes the aid we bring here,' stated Walker, 'we will bring much more aid to Cuba, and more Americans will raise to build a larger solidarity movement.'
'Nothing what Washington says is good, it is a mixture of disinformation, lies and threats,' said the religious leader alluding the text approved against the Cuban people.
'We have to fight that law, no government has the right to tell another people what they must do with their country,' noted Jojo Farrell, member of the 'Venceremos' solidarity brigade with Cuba.
'The US people should fight that measure,' said a young US woman who is visiting the island along with 50 members of the 37th Venceremos Brigade, challenging Cuba travel restrictions from that northern nation.
Members from both solidarity groups held a meeting at the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, where they analyzed aspects of Cuban reality and the Latin American integrationist project titled Bolivarian Alternative for the Americas.
