Many organizations, including the Cuban embassy here, and Cuba's Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) are looking today towards strengthening solidarity actions with Cuba, which for 14 years has sent doctors to Guatemala who have saved thousands of lives. 

Luis Lara, Edgar Alvarez, Ramiro Ordonez, Carlos Enrique, and Alvarez Amezquita, members of the Guatemalan Coordinating Committee of Solidarity with Cuba and the People, agreed last night to strengthen their support for the Caribbean nation through a well-planned program of activities. 

Amezquita, of the Imperialist bloc, said that for years, Cuba has helped members of the Guatemalan left with certain differences of opinion work toward unity.

Meanwhile, Alvarez, assistant general secretary of the New Nation Alliance, analyzed the need to place the issue of the five Cuban antiterrorist fighters, unjustly held in the United States 14 years ago, in more alternative media with which political organizations belonging to the Coordinating Committee have links.

Antonio Guerrero, Fernando Gonzalez, Ramon Labañino, Rene Gonzalez and Gerardo Hernandez were arrested in the United States, on September 12, 1998 in Miami, for monitoring violent groups based in that southern city, from where they plan and launch actions against Cuba.

ICAP official Yamil Martinez said a challenge of the Coordinating Committee would be to work with young people to show them Cuba's truthful and modest example to the world.

Martinez arrived in this Central American nation on Tuesday, October 9, and met with Anibal Garcia, secretary general of the New Republic Movement party, and his Secretary of International Relations, Diana Camero.