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Venezuelans struggle to educate kids amid pandemic lockdown
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CARACAS – María Figueroa often climbs onto the rooftop of her building in Venezuela’s capital clutching a phone and laptop looking for a signal and has paid to run an internet cable to her neighbor’s home, as she struggles to educate her children remotely amid a coronavirus lockdown.
But these work-arounds often end in frustration, she says, reflecting the difficulties of teaching children online in technology-challenged Venezuela, where flipping on the light switch can be a luxury and a strong internet connection a dream.
The government of President Nicolás Maduro has closed schools and ordered teachers and students to finish the year remotely amid the pandemic. “It’s the most important tool we could have right now,” said Figueroa of the
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