In the cultural segment of his “Con Maduro+” program number 40, held at Miraflores Palace, located in the city of Caracas, the president of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolás Maduro, evaluated the project to insert the Cuatro into the curriculum of Venezuelan education:
“That is a wonderful idea that I was talking about with the team of the Great Mission Viva Venezuela, My Beloved Homeland. The great stage, the great theater, has to be every school, every high school, every university, every sports field, every place where the children are,” said the Venezuelan President, who stressed that it is an extraordinary plan, as reported Presidential Press.
“We are waiting to see how it is executed,” he said, after an approach presented by Asdrúbal José Hurtado, better known as Cheo Hurtado, who is a Venezuelan musician and composer.
Accompanied by the Minister of People’s Power for Culture, Ernesto Villegas, the artist indicated that “the Cuatro is at the center of more than 90% of all the traditional Venezuelan and folkloric forms of the country.”
He argued that currently when we talk about the Country Brand, “the Cuatro deserves a space even on the national coat of arms because it is our national sound symbol,” and that the importance of this instrument is such that it motivated him to bring a project to the head of state to “insert the Cuatro into the Venezuelan education curriculum from the school, secondary schools to university level.”
