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CHAVEZ PROGRAM AIMS TO BOOST VENEZUELANS' COLLEGE OPTIONS
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This sleepy Caribbean town of 12,000, about 80 miles east of
Caracas, is too small to have a public university, and Espinoza said
she doesn't have money to pay for an expensive private school. She
applied to the prestigious Venezuelan Central University in Caracas,
but said she was asked to pay a bribe of nearly $1,000 to be admitted
to the public university.
In April, she found the opportunity she was looking for: a
government program conceived by President Hugo Chavez that promises
to provide higher education to hundreds of thousands of Venezuelans
who have never had access to universities.
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