Chavez Warns Private Schools

sounds like ol' hugo is kicking off his own "hundred flowers" campaign...

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) - President Hugo Chavez threatened on Monday to close or take over any private school that refuses to submit to the oversight of his socialist government as it develops a new curriculum and textbooks.

"Society cannot allow the private sector to do whatever it wants," said Chavez, speaking on the first day of classes.

All schools, public and private, must admit state inspectors and submit to the government's new educational system, or be closed and nationalized, with the state taking responsibility for the education of their children, Chavez said.

A new curriculum will be ready by the end of this school year, and new textbooks are being developed to help educate "the new citizen," said Chavez's brother and education minister Adan Chavez, who joined him a televised ceremony at the opening of a public school in the eastern town of El Tigre.

The president's opponents accuse him of aiming to indoctrinate young Venezuelans with socialist ideology. But the education minister said the aim is to develop "critical thinking," not to impose a single way of thought.

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InfinityGoddess said:

Why even worry about Chavez to begin with? He's only doing these things in his own country.

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despite your 133t bolding skills, i'm not particularly worried about chavez. i've stated before that i believe he'll be hanging upside down from a streetlamp ala mussolini eventually.

i enjoy poking so-called progressive supporters of him and, by extension, the bolivarian revolution because they are such ostriches about him, and give him a pass on things that they would never stand for in their home countries. most of these people are limousine liberals who read about socialism through the little glasses perched at the end of their noses, because they know oh so much about what the wretched poor of the third world want and need...

he's doing these things in his own country, yes, but with armed chavistas and a legislative body that he has in his pocket. he has designs on a new south and central america forged in his image, and he makes most clear-thinking folks down there plenty nervous. *

but worried? no.

InfinityGoddess said:

Why do they keep electing him in Venezuela? Because they like him. Apparently, that's a foreign concept to some people...

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perhaps a little research is in order, dear. i know progressives love to invoke carter's certification of the elections, etc... but then we've been down this road before vis a vis carter and the truth about his latin american escapades, yes?

in short, fuck chavez. he's a punk and a thug.

time is on my side, because i have one hell of a memory and will feed crow to a lot of "progressives" once the critical mass of them waking up and him pushing things a bit too far occurs.

it's just a shame that many venezuelans will have to suffer before these idiots realize they were wrong and, with their tacit approval and photo-ops featuring sean penn and cindy sheehan, they have blood on their hands.

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In foreign policy, more Latin Americans trust Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva than Chavez or Chilean President Michele Bachelet.
Six in 10 Brazilians said they have confidence in Lula's world affairs decisions, as did 55 percent of Venezuelans, 53 percent of Peruvians and 50 percent of Chileans polled.

In contrast, majorities in every country except Venezuela and Argentina -- including 75 percent of Chileans, 74 percent of Brazilians, and 70 percent of Peruvians -- said they have little or no confidence in Chavez's international decisions. Bachelet earned less than 40 percent confidence in her foreign policy judgment in every country except Chile.

Brazil and Mexico were viewed favorably by pluralities in all seven countries, while Venezuela was viewed unfavorably in both those nations.
Large percentages in all seven countries listed crime as a ``very big problem,'' more than drugs, corruption or pollution.

Majorities in every nation failed to back Cuban President Fidel Castro, led by the 61 percent of Mexicans and 55 percent of Venezuelans who said Castro has been bad for Cuba. Just 43 percent of Venezuelans who back Chavez, a staunch Castro ally, had positive views of the Cuban president, the poll showed.

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DamaNegra said:

Well, we can't really say how good or bad this new measure is going to be until we see Chavez's program.

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i posted this a while back. enjoy:

http://youtube.com/watch?v=5c-gkg1T_UM