Venezuela, Cuba on Friendship Flight
The arrival of the Bolivar-Marti Solidarity Flight, operated by AMISTUR CUBA S.A. agency, confirms that politics and tourism can harmoniously converge as long as the will to defend a noble, common cause prevails.

The curiosity of nearly 150 Venezuelans from different social strata to know Cuba's reality first hand motivated this Island's only tour operator with a sociopolitical character, which sells more than sun and beaches.

AMISTUR CUBA S.A., in operation since 1994, was born as a need from the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP) to channel, through tour packages, the interest of foreign friends to know the Revolution and, at the same time, look for self-financing sources.

Therefore, the Bolivar-Marti flight contributes to bring Cuba and Venezuela closer together and it is also an opportunity to multiply the knowledge about this Caribbean nation worldwide, said director of the agency, Eduardo Mederos.

In exclusive remarks to Prensa Latina, Mederos said that the agency works to break the disinformation, distortion wall lift against Cuba.

As friends identify with the work of the Revolution, they leave the Island more convinced of its reality, he stressed.

He highlighted his tour operator's capacity to offer foreign friends what he described as custom-designed packages regarding places, duration of stay and prices.

The agency boasts ICAP-channeled contacts in 119 countries.

At least 46,076 "client-friends" traveled to Cuba by AMISTUR in 1995-2006.

The agency offers tour packages to 11 international solidarity brigades every year, including the Nordic, Venceremos(US), South American and Latin American and the Caribbean, while it prepares another packages for specific holidays.

This year, people who join the brigades for May 1st and the 40th anniversary of Che Guevara's death will have the opportunity to take part in lectures, exchanges with the population and recreation activities, he announced.