In the invitation, ANAP general secretary Orlando Lugo Fonte states, "This has been a period of intense work during which the small farmers associated with ANAP and the organization itself have had to fight under difficult conditions and with serious material limitations in order to move our social project forward.

"Along this road we have had successes and failures, errors and gains, and that is exactly what we propose to examine and debate in the center of our highest and most authoritative structure of our organization, its National Congress."

Lugo Fonte added, "ANAP would appreciate it very much if you, friends that during these years have shared our realities, efforts and hopes, would participate in this important event together with us."

The invitation from ANAP is a result of a successful "Farmer to Farmer" trip in February by six farmers and two members of the Atlanta Network on Cuba, which organized the visit. Since then, they have been speaking on university campuses and to other farmers and their organizations on what they learned about the Cuban revolution. Through meetings with farmers they recruited the second group that will now see the Cuban revolution for themselves.

This delegation, like the one in February, is made up of rural producers fighting to keep their land and continue farming. It includes farmers from the Midwest, Northeast and South.  
 
 
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