10am PST / 11am CST / 1pm EST / 6pm BST / 7pm CEST

In the third year after the US-financed failed attempted coup in Nicaragua, this webinar will highlight the destabilising and anti-democratic influence of the United States and reference how the 6 January 2021 Trump-inspired ‘insurrection’ in the US contained pretty much all the ingredients of US-led 'regime change' operations against progressive governments around the world.

Speakers will highlight the parallels between what occurred during the failed attempted coup and what happened in the US in January 2021 and point to how the reactions to both events were markedly different in each case.

The webinar will also look at policies implemented by the Nicaraguan government to restore democracy and protect the people in the wake of the attempted coup and how Nicaragua continues on the road to economic and social recovery as it approaches elections in November.

Speakers:

• Nils McCune – Research Associate, University of Vermont and Visiting Researcher at El Colegio de la Frontera Sur (ECOSUR), Mexico
• Dan Kovalik – Senior Research Fellow, COHA (Council on Hemispheric Affairs) and lecturer on International Human Rights at the University of Pittsburgh School of Law.
• Coleen Littlejohn – Development Economist, MA from Johns Hopkins, SAIS, working experience in Colombia, Chile, Nicaragua, Liberia, West Africa with Catholic Relief Services, Save the Children Canada and the World Bank. She retired to Nicaragua in 2015.

Special guest: Her Excellency Guisell Morales-Echaverry, Nicaraguan Ambassador to the UK and Ireland

Chair: Julie Lamin, author and teacher, member of the NSCAG Executive Committee

Registered participants will receive the Zoom link in their order confirmation email. Any questions, please contact Louise here.