The teachers urged the government of Nicolás Maduro to immediately release the teenagers detained for the post-election protests. They also demanded that they be reincorporated into the school system with comprehensive care, because confinement has violated their emotional state.
A group of teachers and union leaders protested this Tuesday, November 5, to demand respect for the right to education of the 69 adolescents who, according to the Penal Forum, remain detained due to post-election protests.
The educators gathered in front of the Pedagogical Institute of Caracas, in the El Paraíso parish, under the slogans “no more empty desks, let’s save education” and “decent salaries for teachers.” The detained young people, between 14 and 17 years old, have been put on trial for weeks under accusations of alleged terrorism, incitement to hatred, qualified theft, obstruction of public roads, among other crimes.
Raquel Figueroa, national leader of the Simón Rodríguez Educators Movement (MESR), assured that these adolescents “They must maintain all their rights and not only free and compulsory education; “Their rights and human condition are being unfairly violated.”
He urged the government of Nicolás Maduro to immediately release these young people because, he insisted, their right to education is violated in detention centers. He also demanded that they be reincorporated into the school system with comprehensive care, because confinement has violated their emotional state.
“There are students who no longer eat or want to live”he stated.
For her part, the coordinator of the Democratic Unit of the Educational Sector, Ofelia Rivera, also assured that the desks are empty due to an educational catastrophe. “We have gone back about 60 years when it comes to Venezuelan education.”
Rivera stated that this is due to the “internalization of poverty”, social exclusion within education with more than 2.6 million children and young people out of schools, as well as a policy of disinvestment and deprofessionalization of the teaching career. .
“These desks are empty because we have not achieved that the Venezuelan State fulfills its responsibility, established in articles 102, 103 and 104 of the Constitution,” he reiterated.
With information from The Pitazo
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