The Nicaraguan regime continues to lie. They assume that the repair of educational centers, a supposed annual increase in enrollment, free public education and even political training for teachers are notable achievements in education, as announced in their national report presented to the Council of Rights. Humans.
Dr. Adrián Meza, rector of the Paulo Freire University (UPF), whose facilities were stolen by the regime through confiscation, assessed in relation to the regime’s report that education is not only about building classrooms or implementing training courses for teachers. “Education is more than that, more than figures and numbers on paper,” he criticized.
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Meza points out that the content of the report is loaded with figures and numbers, figures that talk about infrastructure and numbers that only focus on numbers of students or students at different levels, but that there is no way to contrast them because the regime “is heading » against any dissident voice.
The regime said in its report that in terms of Higher Education, undergraduate and graduate student enrollment at national universities (state, community and intercultural) increased by 20% from 2019 to 2023.
That is, it admits that the number of students in general decreased and private universities lost more than 7,000 students from 2021 to 2023. A report that this platform published a few weeks ago and titled “High school students in search of the future: another migratory wave” reveals how thousands of university students have left the country in search of study options.
The university students denounced that Nicaragua’s educational system has been systematically dismantled since 2021. And prestigious universities, many linked to religious organizations that offered scholarships to low-income students, have been replaced by institutions controlled by the ideological apparatus of the regime.
The Ministry of Health (Minsa) in the last three weeks, from October 8 to 29, has not reported a single confirmed case of covid-19 in Nicaragua. This is the first time, since the pandemic began in March 2020, that no consecutive positive cases of this disease have been identified.
Between last August and September, the Minsa maintained the number of confirmed cases of Covid-19 at one per week, according to weekly reports released by the institution in official media.
The authorities report that since the beginning of the pandemic they have “responsibly and carefully cared for and monitored 16,200 people” for covid-19, specifying that these “have frequently had associated conditions such as: high blood pressure, diabetes mellitus, obesity, heart disease , immunodeficiency syndrome, chronic renal failure, history of stroke, pulmonary tuberculosis and chronic lung diseases.
Epidemiologist Álvaro Ramírez, in an interview with Article 66, explained that normally in these months of the year “there are not such high numbers” of covid-19 in the country, but he highlighted that “there is always the doubt of the manipulation of data from part of the Government of Nicaragua.
