Ecuador, School Textbooks Filled With Socialist Ideology

According to ElComercio.com the Ministry of Education has begun to provide textbooks that highlight the triumph of Rafael Correa’s rise to presidency and are written with a tone of the Communist Manifesto, Marx and Engels. Paragraphs are dedicated to describing a ‘citizen revolution’ and detailing the bad choices made by former presidents, reports El Comercio. Cuba, Venezuela and UNASUR are written about in high regard. This year the government has distributed 2,713,334 books in mathematics, social sciences, language and science. According to the Ministry, the new books were chosen through a public bidding process; winners included Santillana, National Editor and Publisher SM. The books underwent an outside review in which no ‘political ideologies’ were noted. Rather the blame lay with the application of the material. Discussion continues around the gaps in political education, ideologies in textbooks and giving students a good perception of the country’s issues.Read Article