Fatherland, socialism or death

Current Events
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Venezuela’s schools receive orders to create the “new man”.

VENEZUELAN parents can have any schooling they like for their children—so long as it’s red. That is the message from President Hugo Chávez and his elder brother Adán, a Marxist physics teacher who is the education minister. It is spelt out in a 549-page draft education plan recently leaked to the press. It was expressed, too, at the start of the school year last month, when television showed images of high-school pupils chanting “fatherland, socialism or death!” and singing songs in praise of the president.

http://www.economist.com/world/la/displays…tory_id=9947046

:slight_smile:

What astonishes me is that they are taking the country step by step like in an instruction manual into oblivion.

This article is also very telling:

“If they attack us because we’re indoctrinating, well yes, we’re doing it, because those capitalist ideas that our young people have — and that have done so much damage to our people — must be eliminated,”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlZe4o4…i3iaFzG7MTpow7w

Not many steps left until they mean “elimination” literally and line up individuals that cannot be reeducated to be a “new man”.

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“If they attack us because we’re indoctrinating, well yes, we’re doing it, because those capitalist ideas that our young people have — and that have done so much damage to our people — must be eliminated,”

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hlZe4o4…i3iaFzG7MTpow7w

Not many steps left until they mean “elimination” literally and line up individuals that cannot be reeducated to be a “new man”.

Here is the end-game. The people will vote with their feet. Many will leave and Venezuela will not have a sufficient work force. It will go down the same drain as Cuba. It will become a “one crop” economy – oil which will keep the government in power indefinitely, unless Venezuelan oil is embargoed which it won’t be. We need it too much. Unlike Cuba, Venezuela has neighbors that can be reached on foot. Boats are not necessary.

Bob Kolker

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I would love to see a program of any civilized country / company that offers visas and well paid jobs for the remaining rational minds of Venezuela. I would donate that program 100$, just to see the faces of Chavez and his supporters when “Atlas Shruggs”.