Hosted by the Cuba Solidarity Campaign, Nicaragua Solidarity Campaign Action Group and Venezuela Solidarity Campaign
 

Fighting blockades & COVID-19:
Why US sanctions in Latin America must end

In the depths of a global health crisis international co-operation can save lives. But while Cuba has sent medical brigades to help fight COVID-19 in 38 countries, the US government under Donald Trump has tightened sanctions against Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, preventing access to vital PPE and ventilators.

In the run up to the presidential elections, Trump has courted the most right-wing and reactionary sectors of the Latino diaspora with promises of more intervention and aggression.

Hear speakers from Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela discuss the impact that US policies are having on their people and why we need to step up the campaign of solidarity and for the blockades and sanctions to end.

Guest speakers

Her Excellency Bárbara Elena Montalvo Álvarez, Cuban Ambassador to the United Kingdom

Sofia Clark, Master of International Law, Miguel d'Escoto Brockmann Centre for Development Studies, National Autonomous University of Nicaragua (UNAN)

Adán Chávez Frías - Vice President of International Affairs of the PSUV (Governing United Socialist Party,) former Minister of Education & brother of the late Hugo Chávez Frías.

Chair: Christine Blower, Labour member of the House of Lords and former General Secretary of the National Union of Teachers