US Friendship Caravan On in its Way to Cuba

Washington, Jul 14. -Over 100 participants in the US-Cuba Friendship Caravan will converge this weekend in Texas after travelling on different routes through 130 Canadian and U.S. cities.From Texas, they will travel to Mexico and then to Cuba, the organization IFCO Pastors for Peace Organization said on its website. The group is

The group said it would travel without applying for a license from the U.S. government, defying the blockade on Cuba and U.S. restrictions on travel to Cuba, they said.

From Thursday to July 9, caravan members will participate in activities in various cities in Texas, including Dallas, Corpus Christi, El Paso, Amarillo and Houston, where they will continue collecting humanitarian aid for Cuba.

The activists will give talks on the effects on the Cuban people of the five-decade blockade, and will collect donations of medical and school supplies and construction materials, which are priority this year.

The volunteers, who hail from the United States Canada, Mexico and Europe, are travelling in school buses painted in bright colors, trucks and cars.

This 22nd caravan is expected to arrive in Cuba on July 22 after crossing the U.S. border into Mexico.

The activists will pay tribute to the Rev. Lucius Walker, the late founder and director of IFCO/Pastors for Peace, who led the caravan for 20 years until his death in September 2010. (Prensa Latina)