Eradicate poverty to a limit so people do not reach the Middle Class and want to become “escualidos”*

*(Term used by the Regime to classify Social Middle and High Class, connotation of rich, wealthy)

Minister for Education, Hector Rodriguez, assured today that in the “campaign to eradicate poverty” it is intended to establish social policies to drag citizens out of that condition, with an exception: “we will not pull poor people from their condition up to the point of social middle class and pretend to be ‘escualidos’ (rich, wealthy)”, said Rodriguez.

Rodriguez explained that poverty is a problem “very complex and difficult to measure”. He indicated that criminal violence is not directly associated to poverty. “There are places of poverty where violence indicators are high, and others where life is completely in peace”, he said during the High Standard Poverty Eradication Workshop, in Caracas.

The Minister of Education expressed that is needed to position moral values that allow us to bring on peace. “We have to take advantage of this spreading (of violence) to eradicate poverty and position these values that allow us to live in peace”.

He considers that, in order to achieve a land of peace, it is a duty to guarantee the functioning of all social policies.

As part of the campaign launch, Rodriguez explained that together with INE (Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas (Statistics National Institute), will measure families poverty levels, not by income but by basic needs that are not met.

“Therefore we must guarantee all preschoolers will be incorporated in the Educational system, health primary assistance, healthy and well balanced edibles and productive incursion (…) if we do not elevate the productive policy, and hardly will they reach sustainability in the time we do all efforts”.