Caracas, Venezuela, Sep 2, 2009 / 16:16 pm
The vice president of the Bishops’ Conference of Venezuela, Archbishop Roberto Luckert, warned this week that under the new law on education passed by the Chavez government, “just as occurs in the Cuban educational system, here schools will be used as instruments for imposing Communist ideology.”
The archbishop also warned that all students regardless of grade will be taught “according to the political agenda the government has copied from Cuba and which tramples the Constitution.”
He went on to explain that the controversial law was passed in the “cover of night” and without any consultation with teachers, school administrators and institutions that work in education, such as the Church.
The rector of Andres Bello Catholic University, Father Luis Ugalde, said the new law is a complete replication of the educational system used by the Communist government in Cuba.