Education in Venezuela Técnico en Ciencias (literally, Technician of the Sciences). Under the Bolivarian government, the Venezuelan Ministry of Education proposed an educational curriculum that would help establish a socialist country. On 14 May 1999, the President Hugo Chavez approved lists of books for schools to educate young citizens on socialist ideology. The "Revolutionary Eating Plan" was to feature theorist Karl Marx, revolutionary Che Guevara, and liberator Simon Bolivar. According to Venezuela's culture ministry, the compulsory book list is being designed to help schoolchildren eliminate "capitalist thinking" and better understand the ideas and values "necessary to build a socialist country." In 2011, the
The Liberator (magazine) form a new publication. This new magazine, "The Workers Monthly", was fundamentally similar to the 1923–24 vintage "Liberator" and continued as the Workers Party's de facto theoretical journal until 1927, at which time it was given a new form and title as "The Communist". In January 1945 the name of the publication was changed to "Political Affairs". In January 2008, "Political Affairs" ceased publication as printed paper, switching to an entirely web-based existence. It continues as such at this time (2014). The Liberator (magazine) The Liberator was a monthly socialist magazine established by Max Eastman and his sister Crystal Eastman