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Venezuelan teacher removed for demanding free elections launched a challenge: “I will not kneel”

Nayibet Morales, a Venezuelan school director in San Félix, Bolívar state, was removed from her post by the Ministry of Education for demanding free elections.

Tracked question

Can the political opposition operate freely? · Full question dossier →

linked by topic terms: elecciones, opposition

What would settle it: Opposition figures campaigning or returning without arrest, confirmed independently.

Evidence state: establishedas of Sep 13, 2026not yet linked to a tracked event object in our corpus — no source count yet

Nayibet Morales was removed as director of Unidad Educativa Nacional Simón Rodríguez effective August 14, 2024.

The Ministry of Education cited her 'disregard for the government' as the reason, with no administrative fault.

Morales supports opposition leader María Corina Machado and has participated in union protests.

She was 'demoted' to a teaching position at the same school.

AI-assisted synthesis anchored to a real VeraVadis-analyzed source. Cleared by VeraVadis's automated editorial gates on 2026-08-27 — not reviewed by a human editor. Archive piece: published under our earlier method. It does not carry the per-claim evidence chain — who reported it first and who is echoing whom — that our current pieces carry. The source link and the date are the original ones.