Members of Venceremos brigade return to the United States
Members of the 40th contingent of the Venceremos Brigade returned to the United States on Monday after visiting Cuba in defiance of Washington's almost 50-year-old economic, financial and trade blockade of the Caribbean nation.
A brigade of soldiers from the Southland will leave for Iraq today to work with State Department provincial reconstruction teams in the areas of economic, agricultural and community development, the US Army reported.