Education is impossible in this climate and so are equal opportunities

www.vheadline.com Posted: Thursday, January 30, 2003 - 1:41:09 AM By: Almira Atencio

Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2003 21:44:40 -0400 From: Almira Atencio atencioalmira@hotmail.com To: Editor@VHeadline.com Subject: Re: K.D. Willke and Gustavo Coronel

Dear Editor: Reference K. D. Wilkie's letter directed at Gustavo Coronel(www.vheadline.com). He is absolutely right about the unequal development of the economy of  our country(www.vheadline.com), circumstances that have high incidence in  opportunities for Venezuelan's represented in better  salaries as a right, independent of racial or sex differences.

• Better and qualified  education should be the only measure used to distinguish between one worker and another.

Venezuela's democratic governments have  increased politic instability by wasting public resources in  bureaucracy to dominate power with its own people ... this has led the country to impoverishment and to deny to Constitutent representatives an  appropriate economic plan in order to obtain distribution of the PIB that  would help  solve poverty in our country and to seek economic development.

Chavez approved 49 laws, which were almost all unconstitutional in their articles ... these were the  instruments that would lead him to an  economic plan of development for his revolution for the poor .... he certainly is not taking the path he tells the international community he is ... he does not accept governability principles that are obligations in a democratic country where different interests must be attended to.

The President does protects poor people ... but only those who are  are members of a cooperative group called "Circulos Bolivarianos" (really composed of people who havealways been  members of the socialist group of unemployed people because of its lack of education and by people whose situation is of misery).

The mission of this group  is to protect his revolution ... several from these groups are in prison for killing people in a pacific march on April 11 ... they had guns and they announced to the media that they had to kill everybody because they had to protect revolution.

What is happening in our country?  Because of this, the military said they would not obey the President against civilians. After this, the President renounced. The President's politics,  revolution condemns the state to an absolute domination  of the state, totalitarianism, ideology pragmatism, continuous politic polarization, just like in Cuba. His principle  command  of violence and personal insecurity has misled  him from his  essential mission of the economy.

Our country is considered a high risk for about three years. Capital markets practically do not exist. Enterprises have gone broke. Labor rights have been defended in a clear fight against private enterprises.

Violence is the manual to govern the state. Federal states cannot create work for the regions because the central  state does not want to give them their state budget, just because the governors are not of the revolution.

"Do you still believe the President is doing the correct with us as citizens."  The President will not accept to hear the necessities of organized groups, like the business federation and the strongest trade union in the country.

Education is impossible in this climate and so are equal opportunities.

I would like to offer you Daniel J. Boorstin's opinion from his book: The decline of radicalism: "In the long run, our ability to raise  our American standard  of living will depend on our ability to remove menaces to our health and peace of body and mind , which come from the dissatisfactions and lack of satisfactions of men anywhere.  Equity  in a standard of living society  meant the right  to be educated together with and in the presence of other Americans (everyone has to be benefited)."

The President's plan was good when he sold it to us in 1997: equity for all, opportunities for all. But,  this is not the plan he had in the year 2002.

My respects, Almira Atencio (lawyer specialized in public administration, international finance) atencioalmira@hotmail.com