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Weekly Report - 20 August 2009 (WR-09-33)
VENEZUELA: Education reform triggers protests
President Hugo Chávez promulgated a new education law on 15 August,
which had been passed a day earlier by the national assembly. Chávez said it
would provide equal opportunities for the poor and marginalised. The opposition
coalition Mesa de la Unidad Democrática, supported by public universities and
student federations, is calling for a large march to the national assembly
building on 22 August to protest against the new law and demand that it be
submitted to a referendum. It claims that the law will lead to “socialist
indoctrination" of schools and universities. “If the law makes the bourgeoisie
squeal, it must be good," Chávez responded.
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