US Confiscates Six Computers From Pastors for Peace on Mexico Border Prensa Latina
go to original July 20, 2012

US customs officials deployed on the border with Mexico confiscated six computers from the 23rd Annual Pastors for Peace Caravan, which continues its journey to Cuba today carrying 100 tons of humanitarian goods.

The officials seized the computer equipment as the activists prepared to cross the international bridge at Hidalgo with the cargo they are taking to the island in defiance of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by Washington for more than half a century, as mentioned in various press reports.

However, the caravan activists were prepared to confront these kinds of obstacles at the US borders, which in prior years has gone so far as to indefinite arbitrary seizure of the aid.

The convoy is continuing to travel toward Tampico where it will ship the donations collected over the last several weeks in nearly 90 cities throughout the United States and Canada.

The donations include buses and sporting goods as well as health and education tools, as these are the sectors which have been hardest hit by the hostile policies from the White House.

The United States has maintained a fence around Cuba for more than half a century, despite practically universal rejection from the international community at the UN General Assembly over the past 20 years.

A number of organizations in solidarity with Cuba will participate in a cultural activity at the Plaza de la Libertad in Tampico, in order to reinforce their opposition to the blockade and bid farewell to the Friendshipment Caravan which began at the end of last month.

Around 20 people joined with the 60 activists from various countries who are participating in the Friendshipment Caravan this year, expected to arrive in Havana tomorrow.

The nine convoy routes will converge on Wednesday in McAllen and coordinate their final efforts there to guarantee that the aid is able to leave from Mexican soil and reach its destination successfully.

The late US Reverend Lucius Walker came up with the solidarity project in 1992, with the objective of breaking the blockade and bringing humanitarian assistance and medicines to the Cuban people in yellow school buses, without asking federal authorities for permission or a license.

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