Alliance for Global Justice webinar - Inspiring Social & Economic Advances in Nicaragua
NSCAG News |
on: Thursday, 24 June 2021
Pic: Alliance for Global Justice
This webinar, hosted by the Alliance for Global Justice, took place on 20 June. It is highly recommended for providing a true perspective on current events in Nicaragua as opposed to the misinformation and bias being put out daily by corporate media such as the Guardian, Daily Mail, Washington Post, New York Times and AP News. It also provides a response to the relentless attacks against Nicaragua by the US, Organisation of American States (which was responsible for facilitating the 2019 coup in Bolivia) and Nicaragua's right wing opposition. It also gives an overview of the social and economic advances that have taken place in Nicaragua since the election of Daniel Ortega and the FSLN in 2006.
A recording of the webinar can be found here
Speakers were
Jorge Capelán a Latin American journalist and political analyst who has worked for many years in Nicaragua. He appears weekly on news analysis programs and writes for several online news outlets.
Winnie Narváez Herrera a Nicaraguan who holds a degree in sociology and a master in sustainable development from the University of Leuven in Belgium. She is also an artist from the National School of fine Arts in Managua. In Nicaragua she has worked on rural development, housing cooperatives, and cooperative social education research and promotion at ÁBACOenRed.
Coleen Littlejohn who has been living in Nicaragua for most of the last 41 years. She has worked for a wide range of organizations such as Catholic Relief Services, the International Reconstruction Fund (FIR), Nicaragua Network, CAPRI (a local development NGO she founded in 1988), Save the Children Canada (Managua and Toronto) and the World Bank in Nicaragua, Liberia, West Africa and in Washington, DC.
