This is the 32nd time that Pastors for Peace arrive in Cuba in a gesture of solidarity
july 20, 2022
The First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Party and President of the Republic, Miguel Díaz-Canel Bermúdez, welcomed the 32nd Caravan of Pastors for Peace, which arrived in Cuba on Monday, in a new embrace of solidarity, despite the blockade imposed by the United States on the island for more than six decades.
Havana, Jul 18
Dozens of people participated in Los Angeles in an event of solidarity with Cuba that called for an end to the blockade imposed by successive U.S. governments on the Caribbean nation for more than 60 years.
Activist Carlos Lazo, the coordinator of the 'Bridges of Love' project, told Prensa Latina news agency that the meeting was also aimed at "raising funds for the Saving Lives initiative to take four anesthesia machines to the Carlos J. Finlay Hospital in Havana."
Ambassador Lianys Torres Rivera, Cuban chargé d'affaires to the US, sent the following message to the solidarity meeting with Cuba that took place in Los Angeles on July 16, 2022, organized by Hands Off Cuba and Puentes de Amor:
Washington, Jul 12
Today´s US policy towards Cuba is "wrong, counterproductive and stupid," said Jim McGovern (D-Mass) at a Boston town council hearing.
In the meeting, focused on a US blockade resolution, McGovern asserted this economic, commercial and financial blockade disproportionately impacts the Cuban families.
McGovern, who has long visited Cuba, referred to measures that hinder to send family remittances to Cuba and hindrances to buying food and medicine, even amid the Covid-19 pandemic.
In the year 1930 a friendship was born between the National Poet of Cuba Nicolás Guillén (1902-1989) and the American writer Langston Hughes (1902-1967) that has survived to this day. This excellent relationship materialized this July 11 with the inauguration of a commemorative plaque at the headquarters of the National Union of Writers and Artists of Cuba (Uneac).