NICARAGUA WEBINAR SUNDAY, AUGUST 23
REGISTER: bit.ly/NicaAug23
3pm ET, 1pm Nicaragua, noon Pacific, 8pm UK
Spanish and English interpretation available. Q&A period following the speaker.
Webinar focus: Following the loss of the elections in 1990, Nicaragua’s Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional (FSLN) vowed to “govern from below.” Over the next 17 years, three US-backed neoliberal governments privatized health care and education.
Thousands of people went to the cemetery before their time. Under IMF programs the poor got poorer and the rich got richer.
During this same period, the FSLN worked closely with its grassroots base through unions, student groups and social movements to help people survive, organize, influence, and eventually return to power.The FSLN’s experiences in opposition to neoliberal governance provide important lessons for activists around the world working to effect change today.
Featured Speaker: Valdrack Jaentschke, Co-foreign minister of Nicaragua, will give us an overview of these difficult years and how the revolution survived. He is from Corn Island on the Caribbean Coast and has held a number of government posts.