CODEPINK is visiting Cuba to meet with government officials in a week-long trip dubbed “To Cuba With Love.”
The far-left anti-American group is sponsoring a trip of 150 people – including a former foreign service officer with the State Department – aimed at “promoting understanding and improving relations among peoples.”
“I personally feel very strongly in people-to-people relations,” says Vicki Gray, who worked for the State Department for 26 years.
“Some of us are good folks,” she tells the Times Herald, referring to Americans. “And we love you and we hope you love us.”
Gray says she’ll be visiting with Raul Castro’s daughter to learn more about the country’s sex education program.
“(I’m) looking forward to meeting Mariela Castro,” according to Gray, who is transgendered. “She has done great work making life better for the LGBT community in Cuba.”
Mariela runs Cuba’s National Center for Sex Education, which advocates for the LGBTQ Cuban community.
Gray visited in 2012 to meet with Cuban church leaders. This time, her focus, along with CODEPINK’s, is hastening what she calls the “great thaw.”
“This time, I will go to visit with government officials than church officials,” she says.
While on her trip, she’ll meet with one of the Cuban Five, a group of spies apprehended in the United States.
“The story you hear in Cuban about them is somewhat different than what we have told (here in the United States),” according to Gray.
Among CODEPINK’s delegation includes activists, religious figures, environmental, health care representatives and members of the LGBTQ community.
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