Venezuela’s top secret Chavista school indoctrinates students, politicians into socialism

On the top of a hill near Caracas, surrounded by mist and tall trees, there is a school that looks like a cross between a church and an army barracks. But at this school all the students – and even the visitors – have to be members of the PSUV, Venezuela’s ruling party. Its official name is the Supreme Commander Hugo Chávez National School of Socialist Training, and it is cloaked in secrecy and high security. Current President Nicolás Maduro founded it by presidential decree in 2013, shortly after Chávez, his predecessor and mentor, died. But it took a while for the school to get up and running, going a year without offering a class. More…