Cuba solidarity conference in Mexico
Ciudad Juarez — Cuba solidarity groups from Mexico, the USA and Canada are planning a new drive to send $180,000 of donations to Cuba. The decision came out of a trilateral solidarity conference held in this border city on March 1.
Errol F. Edwards, national coordinator of the US Pastors for Peace, says that in June groups in the three countries will begin collecting powdered milk, medicines, fertilisers, fuel and other items to be sent to the island in early August. Pastors for Peace alone are organising a caravan through 150 US cities, where they hope to collect 100 tons of donations for Cuba. Spanish groups are also contributing $60,000 to the effort.
Edwards reported that a San Francisco-based solidarity group is sending 1500 tons of coffee, cereals and medicines to Cuba via Managua, Nicaragua. And considerable donations from Mexico are expected to arrive in Cuba for May 1, International Workers Day. Mexico's Va Por Cuba organising committee, the US Pastors for Peace and Cuba solidarity organizations in Canada are involved in the drive.
The Cuba Solidarity Conference also issued a letter calling on US President Bill Clinton to lift the economic blockade of Cuba, and to immediately and unconditionally withdraw US troops from the "illegally occupied" Guantánamo Naval Base.
[Radio Havana via Pegasus.]