Afrocentric ethnoeducation: the new dogma taking hold in Uruguay

With a disgustingly progressive title, the Frente Amplio government is promoting an identity-based pedagogy that threatens to destroy the essential pillars of traditional education.

On July 21 and 22, Montevideo was the setting for the First Regional Meeting of Afrocentric Ethnoeducation, supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture, the University of the Republic, MIDES, CODICEN, the Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency, and various "Afro" collectives.

An authentic laboratory of ideological engineering was deployed: the imposition of a "decolonizing" and "Afrocentric" educational model that directly undermines the values of classical, universal, and meritocratic education.

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The meeting, promoted by groups such as the Colectivo de Estudios Afrolatinoamericanos, Agrupación Xangó, and Mizangas, also had the support of international networks like the Black & Indigenous Liberation Movement.

The event served as a platform to redefine the educational system from the logic of racial resentment. This is an education not based on merit or objective knowledge, but on the subject's identity category: which ethnic group they belong to, how they self-identify, which "structure of oppression" they claim to belong to.

A roundtable to undermine the law

The Human Rights Secretariat of the Presidency, currently led by a trans person, set up a roundtable to question Law No. 17,817 against racism. The argument: twenty years after its approval, the law is no longer sufficient. Why? Because it doesn't censor enough.

The secretary, Collette Spinetti, was clear: "The law doesn't address hate speech on social media." Through the discourse of "prevention," the aim is to criminalize opinions and restrict essential freedoms, relying on a positive right that expands as it reduces the freedom of others.

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The public university as an ideological apparatus

Since 2023, the University of the Republic has declared itself "anti-racist," abandoning its vocation for universality to embrace a particular cause: ethnopolitics as the axis of its institutional model.

The president of the Central Service for University Inclusion and Welfare at Udelar, Mercedes Pérez, announced that the Budget Law is expected to include a "specific service window for people of African descent", an absolutely discriminatory initiative.

The university, which should be training free professionals, channels resources, personnel, and entire structures toward a model of discrimination, with specific scholarships, differentiated service units, and an entire bureaucracy built around the "ethnic-racial" variable.

Equality before the law is being displaced by a system of collective privileges where identity relativism is more important than merit or conduct.

Blackening education

Unabashedly, the director of UTU Florida, Claudio Silva, stated: "We must create conflict around identities" and "blacken the curricula." Karina González, director of the UTU Secondary Education Program, said: "We must break down the assumption of another's identity."

Colette Spinetti added: "We were taught history from a Eurocentric, white perspective. We must approach education from a different place."

In Uruguay, education is no longer about thinking, but about activism. Training in science, mathematics, or world history has been relegated: now the priority is to 'create conflict' among students.

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Afrocentric ethnoeducation replaces the commitment to historical truth with a discursive construction filtered through ethnic and ideological categories. What really happened doesn't matter, but rather how it should have been told according to the script of an identity-based, victimist, and anti-colonial narrative. All of this, as always, funded with public money.

The Frente Amplio's woke project

In the 2025–2030 programmatic foundations, Frente Amplio set out the institutionalization of this dystopian agenda: an ethnic-racial approach in all public policies, education that makes Afro history visible, affirmative actions, and a robust system of ethnic-racial data.

This new progressive government, with a trans person at the head of the Human Rights Secretariat, will consolidate the imposition of the woke agenda, disguised as "guarantees of rights."

The law against racism is being reinterpreted as an instrument of ideological control. What once protected freedoms now restricts them under the banner of social justice.

The Uruguayan bureaucratic and academic elite is advancing unopposed toward a dogmatic, racialized, and deeply anti-liberal educational model.