RSVP - Illegal Gold Mining and Dirty Money: Breaking the Vicious Cycle of Environmental Crime in the Americas

On behalf of the Financial Accountability and Corporate Transparency (FACT) Coalition, we are pleased to invite you to a public, in-person event on illegal gold mining and illicit finance in the Western Hemisphere on May 14th at 9:00 am.

The event will feature remarks from two award-winning investigative journalists who have extensively covered illegal gold mining.

* Joseph Poliszuk, the co-editor and co-founder of Armando.Info, has investigated gold mining in his native Venezuela and exposed how illegal Venezuelan gold reaches international markets.
* Arturo Torres, the director of Codigo Vidrio, has written extensively about the linkages between gold, narcotics trafficking and illicit finance in Ecuador and throughout the region.

Julia Yansura, program director for environmental crime and illicit finance at the FACT Coalition, will also share remarks from a U.S. policy perspective.

The discussion will be moderated by Will Freeman of the Council on Foreign Relations, an expert on Latin America and the U.S.-Latin America relationship.

This event will be held in English and will take place in-person on Wednesday, May 14th in Washington DC at the Open Gov Hub (1100 13th St. NW - Suite 800) from 9:00 - 11:00 am.

* 9:00 am Registration and coffee
* 9:30 am - 10:30 am Panel discussion
* 10:30 am - 11:00 am Q&A with participants.

Seating is limited. Please RSVP to save your spot.

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