Venezuela has a powerful student movement, said Maduro. Photo: Presidential Press
Caracas, November 22 (RHC)-- Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro called on Thursday to establish prevention and regulation measures in the face of harmful messages on social networks in commemoration of Student Day, which coincides with the closing of the congresses of the Venezuelan Federation of University Students (FVEU) and the Venezuelan Federation of High School Students (FEVEEM).
Among the measures mentioned by the president, and discussed in the youth space, is the regularization of TikTok and all social networks and to develop from high schools a task of prevention and education “so that the recent events with Venezuelan children and youth do not happen again.”
Maduro proposed the creation of a center from the Ministry of Education to denounce violent acts generated by social networks, and to make a special task with mothers, fathers and representatives to raise awareness. “I will do what the student movement orders to me do”, said the Venezuelan leader.
In that sense, he affirmed that those young people “are a generation that have grown and are growing up in the phenomenon of social networks”, while stressing that social networks are capable of poisoning and it is not known from where they are directed.
“They are turning social networks into a more toxic entity. Social networks have become a target: to poison the minds of children,” Maduro said as he again denounced the death of children in Venezuelan states.
Reflecting on “the harmfulness of the challenges of taking poison, of contaminating others is what has happened in the United States that have gone out to kill with weapons. We have to prevent that virus of death from reaching Venezuela”.
“Venezuela has a powerful student movement”, said Maduro, recognizing the current Venezuelan youth as heirs of struggle. The head of state specified that they were never listened to by any government, and presidents represented surnames.
President Maduro highlighted the role of the productive generation and urged to stop seeing the vision only in oil, by highlighting the importance of taking care of the land. “It is a spiritual way of defending your terroir,” he insisted.
The Venezuelan leader further stressed the importance of learning to defend the land by producing, working and and transiting as a productive generation. “Taking care of the minds of our children and young people” is essential, stressed the head of state.
The proposal of lines of action comes after the death of two minors of 12 and 14 years old after participating in viral challenges in the digital platform TikTok. He also referred to intoxicated teachers and students, who remain hospitalized.
“Putting a challenge of drinking or pouring poison, of contaminating others, is what happened in the United States, which have poisoned the minds of young people who have gone out with machine guns to kill teachers and classmates, we have to prevent that virus of death from reaching Venezuela”, he said.
