This might be a problem if Hispanic politicians had separatist agendas, such as demanding obligatory Spanish-language teaching in schools.
Cardinal Ratzinger, who also explained that belief in the visions at Fatima was up to individual Catholics and not an obligatory part of church teaching, also spoke rather gingerly about Fatima's significance.
The Constitution, drawn up to Mr. Chavez's specifications last year, makes the teaching of "Bolivarian ideology" obligatory in all schools.
The government revoked a law making Russian lessons obligatory in primary schools and resumed teaching Romanian history in schools.
Since then, an important section devoted to phenotypic and genetic variation, mechanisms of selection, and patterns of evolution has been included in most textbooks, and the teaching of evolution is obligatory at present.
In 2002, Roma from the region of Medjimurje sued elementary schools because 15 pupils were segregated in a class and taught 30% less than the obligatory curriculum.
A good thing, then, that since 1988 teaching about the Holocaust has been obligatory at Austrian schools, and that all schoolchildren must visit the former concentration camp at Mauthausen.
The next day she snail-mailed what she had been taught by her grandmother was the obligatory hand-written thank-you note, in which she penned several more lines about how fabulous the weekend party was.
Her work experience is colourful, ranging from the obligatory waitressing and babysitting in her early youth, language teaching, work in film, to translation and in the past decade journalism.
