Fiddler, the article said precisely nothing about your claims of Chavez causing a "growing percentage of poor", "arresting and murdering opposition members", or "arresting the economy and preventing growth".
As for Chavez's education reforms, remember one of his first acts was to abolish the registration fee of state schools and thus extend education to anyone who wanted it. Those people who want to be educated by non-state schools are free to do so (you wouldn't know it from the shrill American commentary). Quite aside from this, it is ridiculous to expect that the proletariat of a worker state -- especially one in political transition (Weydemeyer would call it "dictatorship of the proletariat") -- to be educated in toward capitalist ideals! I was forced to read Marx, Lenin, Engels, Guevara, and Bolivar when I studied politics at college -- I was pissed off and bored, but I wasn't claiming a violation of my human rights! Ian -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups ""Minds Eye"" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/minds-eye?hl=en.
