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FROM
CUBA
Venezuelan students displace Cubans
HAVANA, February 4 (www.cubanet.org) -
Hundreds of Cuban students at the school
for social workers in Cojímar, east
of Havana, were taken out of their school
last week to allow the ministry to use the
school for a contingent of Venezuelan students.
The measure has provoked resentment and
protests among the Cubans, who say the Venezuelans
are given better quality food and have hundreds
of computers at their disposal, both sore
spots among Cubans.
One of the students, a resident of central
Havana, said they had been assigned in small
groups to "houses of study" to
allow them to continue their classes.
"It really is educational apartheid,"
said the student. "Not only can we
not go into certain hotels or enjoy certain
beaches, now the educational system relegates
Cuban students to second-class status in
order to accommodate foreigners," said
the student.
Her mother said: "This is a shame.
In what other country in the wold do you
see this? My daughter has told me she's
planning to drop out."
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