URGENT- PLEASE CONTACT
THE COMMERCE DEPARTMENT
YOUR CONGRESSIONAL REPRESENTATIVES,
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SPREAD THE WORD FAR AND WIDE!
http://www.commerce.gov
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Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez
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Posted by steev at Julio 21, 2005 01:29 PM
As of 1:30 pm EDT, The Pastors for Peace Friendshipment Caravan to Cuba
is being held up at the US-Mexico border by US Commerce Department
officials.
They are threatening to search every vehicle and every item of
humanitarian aid. They are telling us that "only licensable goods will be allowed to
cross into Mexico."Pastors for Peace does not accept or apply for a license to deliver
humanitarian aid to Cuba.There are 130 US citizens traveling with the caravan. They and the
humanitarian aid are traveling in eight busses, a box truck and two
small cars. It will take days to inspect the 140 tons of aid. We are prepared
todo whatever we need to do to deliver our humanitarian aid to Cuba. Stay
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