Friendshipment Caravans

Since 1992, IFCO/Pastors for Peace has organized 31 Friendshipment Caravans to Cuba as challenges to the US government’s economic blockade.  These caravans have taken valuable humanitarian aid to Cuba but more importantly have helped demonstrate to the Cuban people that they are not alone and that they have allies even in the ‘belly of the beast’ in the US.

Our Friendshipment Caravans have also played an important role in making dents in the blockade.  We successfully resisted the Bush administration’s attempts to fully criminalize travel to Cuba, and our work was part of the backdrop to the Obama administration’s partial normalization of relations with Cuba.  Now we are actively resisting the re-tightening of the blockade by Trump, which the Biden administration has so far continued.