Sunday June 18: The ALBA-TCP:  First Fair Trade Agreement in the World & How the US Tried to Destroy It – with government representatives of Cuba, Venezuela, Nicaragua

Latin American leaders at the 20th summit of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America – Peoples’ Trade Treaty (ALBA-TCP).

Featured speakers:

Cuba:  His Excellency Mr. Héctor Igarza Cabrera, Cuban Ambassador to Canada

Venezuela:  Carlos Ron, Venezuela’s Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs for North America and President of the Simon Bolivar Institute for Peace and Solidarity Among People

Nicaragua:  Minister of Commerce, Jesús Bermudez. He is the top Nicaragua official managing the ALBA-TCP portfolio.

3pm Eastern, 2pm Central, 1pm Nicaragua, noon Pacific, 8pm Greenwich/UK

This 90-minute webinar hosted by the Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition will feature representatives from the three most anti-imperialist countries in the ALBA-TCP agreement – Cuba, Venezuela, and Nicaragua – which are also the three Latin American countries most openly targeted by the United States.

REGISTER AT bit.ly/NicaJune18

What you’ll learn: 

What is the ALBA-TCP?  How has each participating country benefited from the agreement?

How have US coercive measures (sanctions, embargo, blockade) affected how the agreement functions?  What are their effects on the people in each country?

This event is part of a monthly webinar series on Nicaragua.  Additional organizational sponsors are welcome.  Contact Barbara@NicaSolidarity.net to sign on.

Current sponsors:

Nicaragua Solidarity Coalition

Alliance for Global Justice

Anticonquista 

Baltimore Club CPUSA 

Baltimore Philip Berrigan Chapter, Veterans for Peace

Canadian Network on Cuba

Casa Baltimore/Limay

Chicago ALBA Solidarity

Claudia Jones School for Political Education

Echoes of Silence 

Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice – Canada

Frente Hugo Chavez para la Defensa de los Pueblos-Canada

Friends of Latin America

Friends of the ATC

Friendship Office of the Americas

Green Renaissance-Sovereign Rights Movement

International Action Center

International Manifesto Group

Jubilee House Community

Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group

Orinoco Tribune

Peoples Power Assembly (Baltimore)

Popular Resistance

Portland Central America Solidarity Committee (PCASC)

Rights Action

Rochester Committee on Latin America (ROCLA)

Struggle/La Lucha

Task Force on the Americas

Victor Jara Siempre Canta