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Vol. 79/No. 40      November 9, 2015

 
Cuban revolutionaries to tour
NY, DC, Bay Area Nov. 3-17
 
BY SETH GALINSKY  
Kenia Serrano, president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples, and Leima Martínez, a representative of ICAP’s North America Division, will be in the U.S. Nov. 3-17 to speak at public meetings in New York, Washington, D.C., and the San Francisco Bay Area (see ad below). The tour will let youth, working people and others hear directly from Cuban revolutionaries about the advances and challenges on the island.

“Their visit will help fight to end the U.S. blockade of Cuba and win the return of the U.S. Naval Base in Guantánamo,” Alicia Jrapko, U.S. coordinator of the International Committee for Peace, Justice and Dignity to the Peoples and co-chair of the National Network on Cuba, said by phone from the Bay Area Oct. 26.

“Many people thought it would be impossible to win freedom for the Cuban Five, but it happened,” Jrapko said, referring to the five Cuban revolutionaries framed up by the FBI in 1998 and jailed in the U.S. for reporting to the Cuban government threats against the revolution from paramilitary groups in Florida with a long history of attacks against Cuba. The last of the Five were freed in December. “The solidarity work many people around the world carried out played an important role. We can use that experience today.”

Serrano visited Australia and New Zealand in June and spoke at the Seventh Asia-Pacific Regional Conference of Solidarity with Cuba in Vietnam in September. She toured the U.S. in 1995 when she was a student leader.
 
 
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