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September 18, 2009

That, my friends, is what totalitarianism is all about: Education in Venezuela

Thomas P.M. Barnett:

Last time Hugo started screwing with the schools, he got himself a coup attempt in response. Since then he's spent a ton of time and money and police effort to try and eliminate all such enemies.

A new August law shoved through the rubber-stamp Parliament "already has the opposition talking of civil disobedience."

Naturally, this will be an American plot, because any such spontaneous popular civil disobedience could ONLY come as a result of American meddling, and not the bad actions of dictators nor their fed-up and brutalized citizens.

Teaching will be structured now according to "Bolivarian doctrine." Hmm, sounds promising all right. The ruling socialist party will run all the schools through their community store fronts known as "communal councils." The central gov will directly determine who gets into college and will take control of the training of teachers.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at September 18, 2009 1:01 AM
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