El Sistema

                                                       EL SISTEMA

Nowadays, we think of Venezuela as an undeveloped country, with a communist government and a corrupt democracy. However, not all the ideas and projects which originated in Venezuela have been a disaster, or a way to support Nicolás Maduro. One example would be “El Sistema”.

“El Sistema” is a project that has its origin in 1975 by José Antonio Abreu, a musician and teacher that had a great idea: creating a network of orchestras and choirs all over Venezuela as a way of human organization and humanistic development. It has another big objective too: to help all the people that don’t have access to music or culture because of their socioeconomic status.

Their motto is “Singing, playing and striving”, as they had to fight for 20 years to make their ideas public and to train the conductors. It also means that life is not always easy, but that if you have a dream worth fighting for, even if it is hard, you have to put your soul into everything you do in order to accomplish it.

This system has been a complete success, and it could be applicable in other countries such as Spain.