University students from all around the country held a meeting at La Candelaria square, downtown Caracas, to discuss the amendment to the Constitution heralded by President Hugo Chávez.

Panel members included Yon Goicoechea, student leader to Andrés Bello Catholic University (UCAB); Nahum Fernández, president of the Youth Metropolitan Institute, and Alejandro Rojas, a student of Central University of Venezuela (UCV).

Fernández said that the students who back President Chávez are familiar with each article to be amended. In the event of approving the changes, he proposed the implementation of article 70 to organize student councils and seize UCAB. In this way, the local community could study there.

Alejandro Rojas, of UCV, pointed out that people empowerment was important indeed. However, in his opinion, this could hardly be implemented if people were not given the opportunity to know about these issues and make their own decisions.