A memorandum of understanding entered into by and between the Pedagogical Institute of Maracay and the Embassy of the United States was absolutely rejected by Minister of Higher Education Luis Acuña, in a statement released in a nationwide newspaper last Sunday.

The educational partnership is aimed to undergraduate students of English as a career to improve their skills at the American Corner Center, in central Aragua State.

According to Acuña, these centers "apparently promote espionage, conspiracy, and subversion activities against sovereign governments and encourage the submission and division of our peoples."