South American Speakers visit Rossport

mayo | environment | event notice Monday April 24, 2006 17:13 by Carol - LASC

Latin America Week 2006 – Mayo

Speakers from Bolivia & Ecuador visit Mayo to share experiences on natural resource issues

Since 1997, the Latin American Solidarity Centre, a group promoting cultural awareness and links between Ireland and Latin America, has organized a week of nationwide events in April dealing with Latin American issues.

The theme for this year’s Latin American Week is ‘Ownership of Natural Resources in Latin America & Ireland’, and the main event was a national conference, titled ‘Ownership and Exploitation of Natural Resources in Ireland and Latin America’, held at The Marino Institute in Dublin on April 22nd.

Following this conference, two visiting speakers RICARDO BUITRON from Ecuador and TANIA QUIROZ from Bolivia will be giving public talks around Ireland.
Ricardo Buitrón will talk about the issue of the privatisation of water and gas resources in Latin America.
Tania Quiroz works with the Defence of Water and Life movement in Bolivia. She speak about the impact of IMF/World Bank policies and the successful resistance to the privatisation of water resources.

Main Event in Mayo
On Tuesday April 25th, the visiting speakers will travel to Mayo. They will be met in Castlebar by members of the Rossport campaign. From there, they will travel to spend the night in Rossport to share experiences with the people there.
The hosts and the visitors will be available for interview and photographs by local and national media at the camp.

Contacts: Local Rossport contact - Maura Harrington 087 95 91474 maurah.ias@eircom.net

For Media & other events in Dublin, Galway and Limerick contact Carol 086 0554665 or Ger 087 6267563 of LASC, or see our website www.lasc.ie