Cuban Youth Leaders in Chicago March 31, April 1; Afro-Venezuelans Tour Chicago
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Direct from Cuba: Youth in the Cuban Revolution Today A rare opportunity to hear Cuban student leaders speak on education, health care, jobs, culture, the impact of the world economic crisis on Cuba. Learn about Cuba’s internationalist volunteers who are in 101 counties with over 100,000 doctors to provide medical care, including in some of the world’s remotest corners. With over 300 doctors in Haiti when the earthquake struck, they were the first in providing aid to the Haitian people. Yenaivis Fuentes Ascencio, 23, was born in Guantánamo, Cuba. Fuentes completed five years of study at the School of Medical Sciences in Guantánamo and is finishing her sixth and final year of undergraduate medical studies in Havana. Fuentes is serving as the National Public Health Education Coordinator of the Federation of University Students. Aníbal Ramos Socarrás, 30, was born in Manzanillo, Cuba. Ramos is a third-year graduate student in surgery at the Manzanillo School of Medical Sciences at the University of Granma. Ramos served one year in Haiti with a volunteer medical brigade. He is a leader of the Federation of University Students at the Scool of Medical Sciences in Manzanillo.
Wednesday, March 31, 7:00 PM DePaul University, Cortelyou Commons, 2324 N. Fremont Sponsors: DePaul Alliance for Latino Empowerment (DALE), African and Black Diaspora Studies, Center for Black Diaspora, History Department, Latin American and Latino Studies, Center for Latino Research, Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning. Co-sponsored by: Latinos Unidos, Black Student Union, African and Caribbean Student Association, Oxfam, STRONG
Thurs, April 1, 1:40 PM Northeastern Illinois University, Science 101 Sponsors: Justice Studies Department, Sociology Department, Political Science Department, Foreign Languages and Literatures, African & African American Studies Program, Latino and Latin American Studies Program, Women’s Studies Program, Justice Studies Club, Feminist Collective, Movimiento Cultural Latino Americano, Alpha Psi Lambda, Union for Puerto Rican Students
Afro-Venezuelans in 21st Century Socialism
Jorge Guerrero, Consul General of Venezuela in New Orleans Modesto Ruiz, Venezuelan Congressperson
As part of the Bicentennial commemoratives activities the Venezuelan Consulate General in Chicago is proud to inform about the visit of two important Afrovenezuelan leaders Northwestern University 1860 Campus Dr., Crowe 5-128, Evanston 2.- Thursday, April 8th (12:30 pm to 2:00 pm), Loyola University 25 E. Pearson, Corboy Law Center, Room 302, Chicago 3.- Thursday, April 8th ( 3:00 pm to 5:00 pm), Chicago State University 9501 South Doctor Martin Luther King Junior Drive 4.- Friday, April 9th ( 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm), Venezuelan Consulate 20 N. Wacker Dr., 19th floor, Suite 1925 5.- Friday, April 9th ( 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm), Trinity United Church-Christ 421 West 95th Street |