CARACAS, Tuesday April 29, 2008 | Update
A memorandum of understanding entered into by and between
the Pedagogical Institute of Maracay and the Embassy of the
United States was absolutely rejected by Minister of Higher
Education Luis Acuña, in a statement released in a nationwide
newspaper last Sunday.
The educational partnership is aimed to undergraduate students
of English as a career to improve their skills at the American
Corner Center, in central Aragua State.
According to Acuña, these centers "apparently promote
espionage, conspiracy, and subversion activities against sovereign
governments and encourage the submission and division of our
peoples."
04:20 PM. Western Hemisphere. Colombian President Álvaro Uribe said on Tuesday that governments should ensure citizens' rights to live on the border, in reference to a political and diplomatic crisis with Venezuela and its effects on border residents.