7/22/2005 130 US citizens crossed the US/Mexico border just before daybreak with almost all of the 140 tons of humanitarian aid en route to Cuba and collected by the Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Cuba Caravan. 6 buses filled aid and caravan members will move forward on the journey and 1 bus with aid and computers was ordered to stay. Photos

7/21/2005 The Pastors for Peace Friend shipment Caravan to Cuba were released, but the struggle is not over. Kathryn Hall and at least two buses are now in Hidalgo, TX, 6 buses and 2 trucks were not released.

7/21/2005 Participants in the 16th Annual Friendship Caravan to Cuba are being held in McAllen Texas at the borders between Mexico and Texas by US Homeland Security Officers, and the Commerce Department. They have been stopped and surrounded and by United States’ Homeland Security Officers, who are preventing them from traveling through Mexico to Cuba. Among those being held is Kathryn Hall, the executive director of the Sacramento Center for Community Health and Well Being.

7/18/2005 The 16th US/Cuba Friendshipment Caravan, organized by IFCO/Pastors for Peace, is preparing to launch a new challenge against the US economic blockade of Cuba. 150 participants – from the US as well as from Mexico, Canada, Uganda, nine European countries, and the Caribbean – are currently gathering in McAllen, Texas. Seven large yellow buses, one small bus, and two box trucks, all of them brightly painted, as well as several other smaller vehicles, all of them filled with valuable humanitarian aid, make up the Pastors for Peace caravan, which has stopped in 130 cities in all parts of the US and will soon be on its way through Mexico to Cuba.
As in previous years, the caravan is carrying nearly 150 tons of humanitarian aid for Cuba – hospital equipment such as incubators, EKG and X-ray machines, dental chairs, medical supplies, computers, school supplies, and urgently needed relief aid for the recent victims of Hurricane Dennis.
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7/10/05 The Pastors for Peace Caravan stopped in Fresno Announcement | Video.

7/6/05 A Pastors for Peace Caravan to Cuba bus was parked at Santa Cruz's weekly farmer's market. Amigos de Cuba (Friends of Cuba), Santa Cruz County, spoke with many people about the Cuban Five and the US embargo on Cuba. Photos at SC-IMC.

In 1993, U.S. Treasury officials at the Laredo, Texas, border seized a Friendshipment school bus, claiming Fidel Castro might use it as a military vehicle. Thirteen people on board at the time began a hunger strike that provoked an international mobilization and demonstrations in 20 U.S. cities. The bus was released after the fast and related campaign that lasted 23 days. Walker and four others went without food for over 90 days in 1996 to force the U.S. government to release 420 donated computers destined for Cuba’s health network and educational system. Read More