18 universities on the brink of shutdown

The college year simply didn’t start for more than 300,000 students across Venezuela, amid a widespread faculty strike that has closed down 18 public universities, writes Franz von Bergen for Fox News Latino.

What roughly 40,000 teachers are demanding is not only a salary raise that reflects the 150% inflation rate projected for this year; they are also adamant that they are provided the resources and materials that they need to operate.

According to Amalio Belmonte, administrative secretary of the Central University of Venezuela, or UCV, universities in Venezuela are going through their worst crisis in almost six decades. “Labs don’t have basic resources, we don’t have money for investigation and other academic activities and professor can’t live with their low salaries,” he said referring to the conditions at UCV, the largest university in the country.
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