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To bad you don't understand Spanish, but in this report Emilia Ferreiro an Argenmex explains what she had to do to get the education levels of up specially in Brazil and rural areas of Latin america.
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Try not to believe what communist countries reports publicate, as a norm is propagandistic and misleading.
The more suspicious you take the reports the better you get the reality.
Saludos.
Emilia is an Argentinian teacher who lives in Mexico, hence Argenmex, She fled Argentina due to the Military coup backed by the CIA.
The Reference I gave in my last post was from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia, not by some political organization.
Try not to believe what communist countries reports publicate, as a norm is propagandistic and misleading.
The more suspicious you take the reports the better you get the reality.
Saludos.
Brazil is nowhere near a communist country. In case you've been asleep for 20 years communism pretty much went the way of the Berlin Wall and the collapse of the Soviet Union circa the early 1990's.
The only 5 countries left in the world that are remotely communist: North Korea, China, Cuba, Vietnam and Laos. None are located in South America. And of course, China these days is a far cry from Marxist/Leninist or even Mao's teachings.
According to the world education index most South American countries have a low to mid 90% education index not far behind the US. Now there are lots of countries in the world that have 50% 60% education index or even lower but not in South America. It seems that you have run into lots of poor under educated immigrants in the US that you imagine that it is all there is; you are definitely mistaken.
[url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Education_Index]Education Index - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia[/url]
South America is diverse, therefore, the education standards in each country are different.
In my experience, it is rare to hear from a South American that their education system is good.
For example, one of the huge hampering factors in Brazil's progress is education. From studies and from what I have heard from the countless Brazilians I have met in my life, unless you have a good amount of money, education there is dismal.
Relying on these types of statistics is very short sighted.
Also those 'poor, undereducated' migrants you referred to are many times alot smarter than so-called 'educated people.' They save their cash to invest in businesses and for retirement, while the educated spend on Starbucks, flashy toys, and keeping up with the Joneses.
Latin America's leftists have an absurd paranoia that the Yankee Gringo imperialists are trying to overthrow them. If we want to overthrow them we would have done it by now ...
Any opposition to their policies is surely the work of the CIA and their Western European counterparts ... and not due to their failed economic polices and repressive methods
Oh Lord, put down the war toys and get back to reality.
Vietnam was a failure. Iraq is a huge, disastrous mess, and these outcomes were PREDICTED years ago by history experts. Central America is worst off now.
The idea that the U.S. can do whatever they want with their military might, and that they can 'fix' and 'control' other countries is a pompous fantasy. It is time this reality is accepted and that money is spent on more important things like health insurance and higher education.
It is obvious that the US was involved in supporting and funding some of these dictatorships, they even did it as late as the early 80's when Reagan supported the Contras in Nicaragua and often called them "freedom fighters".
The problem I have with Brazilian history is the idea that the military dictatorship was a countermeasure against a bunch of "good and well intentioned" people. This is total and complete BS.
What Joao Goulart and all the other guerilla people had in mind was to implement a Soviet style Commmunist dictatorship, the militants were involved in urban guerilla and all types of domestic terrorism so yes, the military dictatorship was an extreme countermeasure to stop Communism.
Due to ignorance and lack of education, many Brazilians believe that people like Dilma Rousseff were fighting for "freedom and democracy".
I mean, do you know any Communist country where there is freedom and democracy?
Well, there is a wave of extreme liberalism that many Latin Americans subscribe to that I do not agree with. You are right about that. They blame many things on the US and romanticize Cuba.
As I mentioned in another post, facts are facts, regardless of political views. The Cuban revolution is a failure to the people of Cuba. There is something very wrong with a society when highly educated people cannot find work and can barely support themselves, or where they have to deal with hipocritical/demeaning society rules imposed on them.
Venezuela is a big hot mess as well.
In general, how long can you have people getting by solely with support programs? How can a country be run well by extremists of any type?
The roots of many of these societies problems are extreme corruption and nepotism. This and a lack of education for society as a whole. It seems like these are not the problems being addressed, and that is a huge issue.
The first president to ever let the police do its job, and investigate the powerful corrupts.
When did you imagine to see the president of giant construction corporations like Camargo Correa and Odebrecht to be in jail?
It's only a pity that the police has free hands to investigate everything, but the Judiciary will block all investigations when the corrupts are mayors and governors from the right wing oppostion parties.
And about the temporary economic crisis, it was MUCH WORSE in 2001, when the right-wing "small government" clown Fernando Henrique Cardoso was the president. At that time we didn't even have electricity, thanks to the "apagão". Too bad the corrupt Judiciary will never let the police investigate all the corruption from that time.
The error of the Worker's Party (the current ruling party) was to follow the same terrible ethical standards of the right wing parties that ruled before.
But I have no doubt that Dilma Rousseff has much higher ethical standards. She would never connive with corruption if she knew about anything. If corruption is being unveiled now in Brazil it's because the government of Dilma Rousseff is letting the police do its job without any interference.
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