Iliana García Giraldino – Always with Cuba / ICAP
Havana, June 3.- More than a hundred young people, mostly Americans, integrated into the International Assembly of Peoples (AIP) carry out a week of visit to Cuba where they will learn firsthand about the criminal effects of the blockade and the resistance to the
imperial pressures.
The Cuban Institute of Friendship with the People (ICAP) and the Martin Luther King Center prepared a program for the group that began this Sunday with a meeting at the agricultural camp and assisted living center of the Cabildo Quisicuaba sociocultural project, in San Antonio de los Baños, Artemisa province.
Doctor Enrique Alemán García, head of the Quisicuaba social welfare program and deputy to the National Assembly of People’s Power, welcomed the group led by activist Manolo de los Santos, co-executive director of The People’s Forum. from New York.
Alemán García expressed satisfaction at receiving the IV Youth Brigade to Cuba of the AIP in the camp, which welcomes people with special vulnerabilities who lived on the streets and in the project they find care, rehabilitation actions, work, food and medical assistance , with a view to their social reintegration.
The visitors were interested in various aspects of this work that is inspired by Martí’s apothegm “With all and for the good of all” in correspondence with the political will of the country and its work in social assistance. Manolo de los Santos expressed the gratitude of the young people – among whom there are also people from Asia and Africa – for the opportunity to learn about the enriching experience of the camp, in whose agricultural areas they did volunteer work.
The AIP, through its chapter in the United States, organized this brigade that will visit the Fidel Castro Center and exchange with representatives of the ICAP, the Martin Luther King Center, the MINREX, with workers, scientists, young Cubans and students from the Latin American School of Medicine.
The AIP brings together more than 200 organizations in the world and promotes a process of articulation and mobilizations in solidarity with the people and anti-imperialist struggles, having among its campaigns Cuba lives and resists, and support for the Palestinian people.
