The Minister of Education, Ángel Hernández, expressed this Tuesday morning that with just three months at the head of the unit, he has received a death threat.
“A serious review of what has happened in the Minerd must be done, personally, I even received a threat…” said the official.
During an interview granted to the program El Día, a television program that is broadcast daily on Telesistema, Hernández said that the threat was sent to him through a third party.
“You have to shoot the Chinese,” they told him. Without specifying any names, the minister said that he learned of the threat a little over a month ago and that he immediately passed it on to the National Department of Investigations (DNI).
Hernández, who was appointed to that position on August 3, replacing Roberto Fulcar, also said that in the ministry “there are many things to investigate.”
“In the ministry there are many problems, I cannot say that they are mafia structures, I can only say that there are many contracts that are improper, that many things have been done,” he said.
He also pointed out that the institution currently has a team of lawyers that is investigating all the tenders that have been made in the Minerd, trying to determine which of all the contracts have been fulfilled and which have not.
Likewise, he said that the problems of the ministry in administrative matters, absorb the time of the entity to focus on the quality of education.
“The time that one has to dedicate in the Ministry to Education has to be dedicated to issues that are conjunctural, then that type of question is what must be resolved in order to dedicate oneself to the solutions that are fundamental in the Ministry,” he explained.
