Venezuelan tells of city problems
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Do you think American streets are clean? A visiting public administrator from Venezuela whose primary concern is municipal government says they are.
Ricardo Arroyo-Vedia, a temporary student in the KU Intensive English Center, says that Americans are much more aware of the need for sanitation and public health than citizens of his country.
Vedia works in a division of the Foundation for Community Development and Municipal Improvement in Venezuela.
"THE SANITATION services in many Venezuelan cities are in a deficit," he said. "We (the Foundation) try to reform them so that their incomes will meet their costs."
The Foundation, which was created by the Venezuelan president, is similar in its objectives to the Alliance for Progress created by John F. Kennedy, he said.
The municipal development programs of eastern Venezuela are guided by a staff of ten persons of whom Vedia is director. All the staff members are graduates of Venezuelan universities.
Vedia's division of the Foundation, the Eastern Center, covers roughly the eastern third of his country. In part, the Center's municipal reform program calls for organization of municipal administrative structures, systems of tax and debt payment and data processing, and modern public services such as sanitation and health.
THE PEACE CORPS is a big help to the Center, Vedia said. In many cities the volunteers work in city hall. These Corps-men are primarily college majors
in accounting, architecture,
economics, engineering and sociology.
Vedia said much of municipal government's problem is its inability to function as an autonomous unit. Dictators who have kept all power for themselves have made local governments dependent on the national government.
"If one government (national, state or local) is good, the rest will be good," he said. "Venezuela now has new people with new ideas. We want a modern government which only democracy makes possible."
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