Havana - The 28th United States-Cuba Friendship Caravan, led by Pastors for Peace, will pay tribute here today to the founder of that interreligious platform, Rev. Lucius Walker, who passed away in 2010.

The 28-people visiting group, mostly Americans, but also Mexicans and Europeans, arrived in the island yesterday to support the claims for the cessation of the economic, financial and commercial blockade imposed by Washington for almost six decades.

According to the executive director of Pastors for Peace, Gail Walker, the activists will demand the administration of U.S. President, Donald Trump, to keep the progress boosted by his predecessor, Barack Obama, and authorize the citizens of that country to travel to Cuba freely.

The caravan, which brings a symbolic donation of first-aid medicines in the Caribbean nation, will tour several Cuban provinces and meet with citizens, churches and cultural entities.

The Caravan of Friendship began in April a tour across 50 U.S. cities to report on the Cuban reality and Trump's attempts to reverse the incipient process of normalization of bilateral relations.

Pastors for Peace emerged in 1988 as a project of the Interreligious Foundation for Community Organization, led at that time by Rev. Lucius Walker, and has been directing his initiatives of solidarity towards Cuba since 1992.