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Friends of Cuba Begin to Arrive for May Day Celebrations
CUBA, 27 April 2011.- Over 170 friends of Cuba coming from some 20 nations were welcomed on Monday as part of the 6th Primero de Mayo International Brigade that will participate in the rally scheduled to mark International Workers’ Day in Havana on 1 May.
Raul Abreu, director of the Julio Antonio Mella International Camp located in Artemisa province, where the group will stay until May 7, told ACN that the number of members of this Brigade will amount to 236 by May 1st.
Betty Moller, who has come to the island four times to mark International Workers’ Day and a member of the Swedish–Cuban Association in Sweden, pointed out that May Day celebrations in Cuba are among the greatest in the world, hence her wishes to experience them and share these moments with the Cuban people.
Other delegations in solidarity with Cuba, invited for the celebration by the Confederation of Cuban Workers, will join these visitors, as explained by Elio Gamez, vice-president of the Cuban Institute for Friendship with the Peoples.
He highlighted the work of the international movement in solidarity with Cuba, against the US blockade of the island and in favor of the release of the five Cuban antiterrorists unfairly incarcerated in the United States.
Gamez Neyra also thanked these friends of Cuba for their personal and economic efforts to celebrate May Day on the Caribbean island. Other cities of the country will also welcome members of foreign groups that will come to Cuba for the occasion.
Michael Wogerer, president of the Austria-Cuba Friendship Association, said that he will travel to eastern Santiago de Cuba province to share the experiences of residents in that Heroic City.
The official program of the members of the 6th contingent of the May Day International Brigade also includes their participation on May 2 in this capital in the International Meeting of Solidarity, as well as in the meeting against military bases and for peace to be held in Guantanamo from May 4th through the 6th. (Cubaminrex-AIN)