:quality(85)/cloudfront-us-east-1.images.arcpublishing.com/infobae/JCQC5FQF5ZER7CIVSFHGFQUNEY.jpg "He moved to Peru, became an employee to pay for his academy and became the only Venezuelan to enter UNI: Yulivet Jardine's feat")
Oliveth Garden Goidea (18) The only Venezuelan who entered the National University of Engineering (UNI) last week faced more than 5,500 applicants for the 30 positions offered by the university through eleven faculties.
He got the pass on the second attempt Mechatronics Engineering And keep the balance in the minimum quota Venezuelan immigrants Those belonging to these university classrooms (another Moises Tonis Benitezwho study telecommunications engineering).
Both set a precedent against criminal rhetoric used against immigrants, even used by the president. In Boluarte. “My mother came first because my uncle got a job. Then I came in 2019. I always wanted to study engineering. I looked at options and prepared myself at the academy until the pandemic hit,” he said Republic.
At the height of the health emergency, Olivet Gardens He had to leave his studies temporarily and work as a Tahsildar. He did that for two and a half years until he saved enough money to pay for his education. Last August, he applied to UNI for the first time, although he did not get the required score.
“When I got a vacancy I started studying again until now. Obviously, the UNI It is obvious to anyone that it is a prestigious university. I always read in the library [de la academia] From 8.00 am to 9.00 pm, with a lot of discipline, I would like to say that there is no unfulfilled dream,” he remarked.
Enrollment of women in engineering has increased in recent years: in the recent 2024-I admissions process, 1,269 applicants entered, of which 16% were women, the majority coming from the Lima region (173). , three from Cusco, two from Puno and two more from Ayacucho.
“The Engineering It depends on the taste. It is an industry that is only for them, a barrier that should no longer exist,” he noted. garden, whose income in that historic victory. Architecture is the preferred career for female students ahead of chemical engineering and industrial engineering.
Doctor Gladys Vasquez, Director of Admissions (DIAD) at UNI, highlighted this gender quota by noting that 1,761 of the 10,978 students enrolled in the second semester of 2023 were women. “This is an example of breaking the myth that engineering is only for men and that many of us can study engineers, architects, mechatronics or whatever career we want,” he said. Andean.
On his part, the Rector of UNI, Alfonso Lopez-ChauHe emphasized that during this competition, more women have secured vacancies (203) as compared to last year (179).
According to United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR), more than 1,500,000 Venezuelans live in Peru, the second country in Latin America – after Colombia – with the largest number of oil-born citizens who have been subject to dictatorship. Nicolás Maduro.
Since the start of the crisis, 7.2 million people have fled the Caribbean. A report published in 2021 by the Catholic University's Institute for Democracy and Human Rights determined the negative opinion. Venezuelan immigrants It has a lot to do with how the media stereotypes these citizens.
The investigation calculated that in four out of five references or reports in the Peruvian press, immigrants were portrayed as criminals. At the end of April 2023, Boluarte called for an overhaul of the immigration law, which continues to state that those who commit assaults, robberies and other crimes on a daily basis are foreigners.
“Former President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski He allowed free entry through northern Peru to any citizen who wished to enter. In that time, 800,000 Venezuelans have entered, many Haitians, and they are the ones who are unfortunately committing these crimes,” he said.
The governor's speech led to messages of support through social media. Immigrants.
