| Hands Off Cuba! Hands Off Venezuela! – an online teach-in with Edwin Christian Garcia Vivas & Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza. Introduction: Christina Perez Tuesday December 2, 2025 4:30 pacific / 6:30 central / 7:30pm eastern On Google Meet ( https://meet.google.com/unv-eerg-qao) Edwin Cristian García Vivas is a specialist in the North American Department of the Cuban Institute of Friendship with the Peoples (ICAP). He is a member of the Academic Research Group on Relations between Cuba and the United States from the Raúl Roa García Higher Institute of Foreign Affairs and the Center for International Policy Research. He has written and conducted research on the topic of bilateral relations between Cuba and the United States. Jesús Rodríguez-Espinoza is an expert in international relations, Venezuelan politics, and communication. He served for several years as Consul General of Venezuela in Chicago (United States); before that, he was part of the foundational editorial team of Aporrea.org. He is the founder and editor of the Venezuelan anti-imperialist news outlet Orinoco Tribune. Christina Perez is an Associate Professor of Sociology and director of Gender and Women’s Studies and Latinx/Latin American Studies. Her work examines race, gender, coloniality, and social justice in Latin America and U.S. Latinx communities, with teaching and recent scholarship that reframe Latinidad by centering Black and Indigenous experiences and challenging white supremacy. She is also the author of a book on Cuban community-based medicine and a published article on Cuban and Venezuelan medical internationalism Organized by HotHouse with support by The Institute in Support of the Cuban People (ICAP), Orinoco Press, Chicago Cuba Coalition, U.S. Palestinian Community Network (USPCN), Carlota’s Warriors For Cuba, Cuba Working Group IC DSA Americas, Southsiders for Peace, Massachusetts Peace Action, Palestinian Youth Movement, Vancouver communities in solidarity with Cuba (VCSC), Fire This Time Movement for Social Justice, Byron Sycho Lopez, Puerto Rican Cultural Center and The US-Cuba Normalization Committee |
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