Venezuela’s Education System on the Brink

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Issue Jul 01-31 2025: Besieged by poverty wages, minimal supplemental vacation bonuses, a chronic shortage of teachers (at roughly 200,000, according to official statistics), and poor academic performance, the Venezuelan education system is in such a state of crisis that it threatens to plunge the South American nation into a kind of dire “premodern condition”–a willful consequence of the current regime’s political strategy of relegating this crucial sector to last place among its priorities.

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