Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez has made a list of mandatory reading for all Venezuelan’s and to ensure the books are being read the government is providing them free of charge.
The list includes;
Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”,
Hugo Chavez’s “Selected Speeches”,
Hugo Chavez’s “State Terrorism in Columbia”.
Cervantes “Don Quijote”,
Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables”
The list includes;
Karl Marx’s “The Communist Manifesto”,
Hugo Chavez’s “Selected Speeches”,
Hugo Chavez’s “State Terrorism in Columbia”.
Cervantes “Don Quijote”,
Victor Hugo’s “Les Miserables”
“There are lots of accusations that we’re somehow indoctrinating people into socialism which I think is completely false,” says Edgar Roa, who organized the book event in the main square of Caracas.
“What we’re doing is putting books within everybody’s reach, including children’s literature, with absolutely no political content. Or Les Miserables by Victor Hugo which can be interpreted in many different ways depending on your political colors.”
The coordinator of the Revolutionary Reading Plan is a young Venezuelan named Carlos Duque, who stated, “When Fidel launched the literacy plan in Cuba in 1961, he told the people of Cuba the plan’s slogan was ‘We don’t tell the people to believe, we tell them to read’ and that’s kind of the idea here too,” he says.
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When you write "required" reading list, you make it sound as if there will be some penalty for not reading a book, or "enforcement" of the reading list, whereas this is not the case.
ReplyDeleteThe reading list is "required" in the same sense that Time sometimes publishes a "required reading for the decade" list, where "required" means "essential", like to be a well-informed human being.
But no, there's no dictate by fiat that anyone read anything in Venezuela. It's a compilation of suggested reading coupled with a giveaway, not unlike Oprah's perennial ones.