Pastors for Peace Pay Tribute to Reverend Lucius Walker in Havana

HAVANA, Cuba, Jul 19 (acn) The members of the 27th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan paid tribute on Tuesday in Havana to its founder Reverend Lucius Walker at the Jose Mari Anti-Imperialist Tribunal.

Ninajb Raoull, member of the executive committee of the Inter-Religious Foundation for Community Organization, IFCO, said that Reverend Lucius Walker was a mentor for the organization. She stressed that Walker's plaque is placed in a site with other historic figures like civil rights leader, Martin Luther King Jr., Nat Turner and many others.

The caravanista said that this year's group is diverse and come from places in the US, Mexico, Germany and for the first time Sweden. The group is committed in fighting against the economic blockade, travel ban and the return of the US naval base in Guantanamo to Cuba.

We have come a long way, said Ninajb, but there is still much to do. Cuba, she said has given so much to the world and its time we continue our struggle to end the continued aggression against the Cuban people.

The representative of the US Division of the Institute of Friendship with the Peoples, ICAP, Yanela Gonzalez welcomed the solidarity activists and said that the Cuban people remember the legacy of Reverend Lucius Walter and his example as an endless fighter in favor of the Cuban Revolution. Yanela added that "there is a plaque engraved in golden letters in front of Havana's Malecon Seaside Drive dedicated to a man who fought all his life to justice and against Washington's blockade against the Cuban people".

Also present in the ceremony were members of different religious denominations in Cuba like Reverend Armando Rusendo, Executive Secretary of the Cuban Council of Churches and Reverend Raul Suarez, Director of the Martin Luther King Center.

The 27th US-Cuba Friendshipment Caravan arrived on Monday to Havana after traveling through 45 US cities informing communities and neighborhoods that despite the diplomatic ties between both countries, the blockade remains intact. The caravanistas also collected humanitarian aid for the Cuban people without requesting a license from the Treasury Department in complete defiance of the travel restrictions that remains on the people of the US.