Debate on Law against Hatred will be taken to schools and universities

Erika Farías, a member of the National Constituent Assembly (ANC), reported that the debates on the Constitutional Law against Hatred, Intolerance and Peaceful Coexistence, proposed by the Head of State, Nicolás Maduro, will be brought to schools, High Schools and Universities.

When interviewed in the “Punto de Encuentro” (Meeting Point) program, broadcast by Venezolana de Televisión, Farías explained that a great debate should be opened throughout the country to discuss the impact of anti-values such as intolerance, hatred and violence, promoted by opposition sectors in the country, which have generated woeful wounds in the Venezuelan society.

“It is not a question of making a law that implies a specific fact, but a law that allows the conditions to be created so that those events are not repeated in the country”, she said.

The proposal presented by the Head of State has among its objectives to eradicate discriminatory political and ideological, fascist, supremacist and racial expressions, as well as to seek the reunion, reunification, harmony and peace of all Venezuelans.

It also proposes to punish those officials who participate directly or indirectly in actions of political violence; In addition to reviewing the custodial sentences established in the Venezuelan legislation, since hate crimes in other countries of the world suppose greater penalties.

Regarding the proposal of the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, to dialogue with his American counterpart, Donald Trump, she said that the leaders of two opposing models would be meeting: The capitalist one, which is in a serious existential crisis that has not solved the material and spiritual problems of humanity, and “A model of society, which we are building, based on the principles that our Liberator, Simon Bolivar, left us, and on the basis and principles of socialism.”