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The right to education and culture

Antonio Gershenson

Culture, education and gun budget .

Budget cuts are the first weapon that has been used by the right against culture and against public education. At the end of the federal election campaign circulated on the Internet a demand, signed by people who presented themselves as young employees of Calderon.

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What was the closure of public universities. According to them, they were very expensive and very poor performance. "They recognized" that these students were capable, and they raised that they were given scholarships at private universities.

Obviously, under current conditions is not feasible such a thing. Then the federal government, despite its lack of legitimacy, it sends budget cuts against culture and against education, the latter particularly affecting public institutions of higher education.

is not new that the right is the enemy of culture and public education. Who was the Nazi leader who said that when he heard the word "culture" carried the hand to the butt of his gun? And do not return the Franco English Catholic clergy education? The escape of the main representatives of culture and human thought in general that were not killed by the dictatorship, we benefited in the person of many who migrated to our country.

Our country played a leading role when Juarez and the Liberals led the Reformation, it real and not the counter that proclaims the right. Among his conquests is secular education. This achievement has spread to other countries. Public education in general is an achievement for us and deeply rooted constitutional. Y promotion of culture in large parts is not unrelated to public higher education: audiences for cultural, cultural centers, such as just starting to build the UNAM in Tlatelolco, and others, are good examples. And it is telling that private universities do not do this type of investment. Van only to train students for specific purposes related to the race question. And his guidance is consistent with those who founded and those who support them economically, in addition to the high tuition they charge.

in educational and cultural centers of the right attitude was not ignored, nor is. The fact was that when the surveys in higher education and research, during the pre-election period, the results were much more favorable to Lopez Obrador, and more unfavorable to the right, which surveys the overall coverage.

Right accusations against institutions such as the UNAM, while internationally this institution is rated as the best among Latin American countries plus Spain and Portugal. May never have stopped at the university. Still less must have attended cultural events in the same facilities.

Autonomous University of Mexico City has not been snipped in its budget. Instead, this budget is guaranteed by law. This is an example of what happens in a city ruled by the left. It shows that abuse of the right to education and culture are a must, it is simply a reflection of the nature of the right in general and especially in our country.

We must all fight this attack on the right, at the same time is an onslaught of barbarism. Is an attempt doomed to failure, to return to before the Reformation. Fobaproa money to bankers, the money to further enrich the already multi-millionaires, that does not want to play. But it is attacked it financially culture and education. This is what we should not allow.

Notes. Title of the cartoon "New Campaign", by José Hernández, December 10, 2006, La Jornada

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