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February 19, 2006
Harvard revelations
I'm at the model UN conference for Harvard and learned something neat tonight that I had suspected but was glad to get from the horses mouth (or rather, a crowd response). At the conference a lot of students from Venezuela attend and at the delegate dance they get a DJ who also hails from Venezuela (but is local to Boston now I believe). They do this because the Venezuelan kids riot if the music isn't right, this happened like four years ago apparently.
The interesting tidbit was when the DJ had a shout out to the Venezuelan kids, he followed up with 'We have to get rid of Chavez!' and got a similarly big response. I loved it, it was amazing, a really nice confirmation of the things I've been reading about for the last year. Theoretically I knew this all, the kids who are attending university in Venezuela (especially universities capable of sending students on international jaunts) are the children of the upper classes who dislike Chavez.
I'd meant to talk to more of the Venezuelans but sometimes these things don't really work out you know? There's another day left, maybe I'll get some more info.
Lastly I met someone from Cuba, they were real nice and put up with listening to me talk about the little I know.
Posted by cak19 at February 19, 2006 03:22 AM
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