Word: gonzalez
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Violence is endemic at the Central University, according to Gonzalez. Scarcely a week passes without some incident, and scarcely a month without a major...
...addition to being ineffective, this policy, according to Gonzalez, "injures the nation more than the terrorists." The curriculum is disrupted, and the ability of the university to produce the trained men Venezuela needs is impaired...
...power the students have in the administration of the university is symptomatic of what Gonzalez regards as the root cause of the terrorism: the high position that the university student occupies in Venezuelan society in general, and in political life in particular...
...incorrect to say that all the violence is inspired by Communist or Cuban agents, Gonzalez said. Student political violence is a tradition at a university which since 1908 has always been in opposition to the governments of Venezuela...
Nevertheless, the two largest groups of student terrorists are the Communists and the Fidelista MIR (Movement of the Revolutionary Left). Though indistinguishable from the Communists in action, according to Gonzalez, the MIR derives much of its strength from those, especially from rural areas, who do not want to incur the stigma attaching to Communism--"I wouldn't want my mother to hear I was a Communist...