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I= APPENDIX OS_BRIGADE The Venceremos Brigade (VB) has been publicly described as a group of Amerjcan volunteers traveling to Cuba, at the invitation of the Cuban Government, to assist in the harvesting of sugar cane. The VB, organized in June, 1969, by a coalition of the New Left in open deriance of the United States Department of State ban on travel to Cubs, has already sponsored two contingents to Cuba. One group of over 200 Americans traveled to Cuba vin Mexico in November - December, 1969, for a stay of almost two months, Tne second group of over 500 Awericans departed by Cuban vessel at St. John's, New Brunswick, Canada, on February 13, 1970, and returned on April 28, 1970. Venceremos trinslated means “we will win," a slogan of the late Che Guevera, Cuban revolutionary leader.