Mid-Terms, Graduation, Fighting a Dictator: Venezuelan Students’ Shifting Priorities
Mid-Terms, Graduation, Fighting a Dictator: Venezuelan Students’ Shifting Priorities
With classes disrupted, the economy in shambles, and more peers in jail, Venezuela’s young opposition is raising its voice.
CARACAS – Students at Caracas’ Simón Bolivar University (USB) haven’t had an exam in three months. Professors at the Central University of Venezuela (UCV) stopped taking attendance. At the Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB), protests and road closures count as excused absences.
As a large portion of the 3,500 people detained by security services in recent months, and with 18 college students among the 75 people killed in near daily street protests since April, you can’t blame young Venezuelans for having priorities other than school.
“We’re not thinking of how many beers...
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