Venezuela: Regional
Unity via Colleges
Representatives of about
30 universities from
Latin America and the
Caribbean are promoting
several syllabuses
oriented to regional
integration through an
internal exchange of
professionals.
President of the Great
Ayacucho Marshall
Foundation (a
scholarship program
sponsor), Jorge Arreaza,
said the initiative
emerges from ALBA
cooperation policies
(Bolivarian Alternative
for the Americas).
He added that this way
they also try to prevent
brain drain to the
United States, Canada
and Europe, which is one
of the main problems
hindering sci-tech
development in Latin
America and the
Caribbean.
With this objective in
mind, commissioners of
higher education
facilities are taking
part in the first Study
Opportunity Fair in
Caracas, with Venezuela
signing three agreements
with the Bolivarian
University and the
University of Arts and
Social Sciences of
Chile, and one with a
Uruguayan university.
Professionals from
Brazil, Mexico, Cuba,
Ecuador, Jamaica,
Argentina, Barbados,
Bolivia, Nicaragua,
Panama, Paraguay, Peru,
the Dominican Republic
and Trinidad and Tobago
also figure among
attendees. plundering of
our natural resources
have ended with the
Dignity Pension," he
remarked. |
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