Venezuela inaugurates Martin Luther King university

Venezuela paid tribute last week to Martin Luther King on the 50th anniversary of his assassination when Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro inaugurated the Martin Luther King University Complex in Barquisimeto, the capital of Lara state, reports teleSUR.

The institution is part of the government's initiative to expand university education. More than 6,000 young people will pursue higher education at the complex. Maduro said the higher education institution “is named after this hero of the African-American peoples” and will serve to promote culture, health and education for residents of under-served communities in the region.

Maduro expressed the need to strengthen university programmes focused on training professionals who will attend to priority areas needed by the country. He noted that universities need "to graduate more doctors, because we need doctors in all the communities of the extensive geography of Venezuela ...We need to graduate agronomists, veterinarians ... We need to graduate educators, civil engineers to build homes." The Martin Luther King University will also have laboratories dedicated to mining Venezuela's new cryptocurrency, Petro.
Full report on the teleSUR site