Dozens of students given scholarships by the Ministry of Youth to study abroad have received warnings that they may not be able to continue next semester because of delays in the payments by the state for their scholarship programs.
The young people, who are studying at academic institutions in Mexico, the United States, Argentina, Chile and France, and who only decided to complain of their situation anonymously, said they were alarmed when receiving the news from the university academic administrators.
Meanwhile, the sub-minister in charge of these programs for the Ministry of Youth, Luis Diaz, promised that these problems would be resolved before the next semester begins so that these students, almost 60 in number, who have benefited from these scholarships will be able to complete their study programs.
He attributed the delays in payment to bureaucratic public administration procedures and to the tiny budget given to the Ministry of Youth.
He added that as a way of honoring the millions in debts that the ministry has contracted with local universities, all new scholarships have been halted. This has also happened in the Ministry of Higher Education, Science and Technology.