Eduardo Mendez, Executive Director of El Sistema, The System, that proves free music education in Venezuela’s shantytowns and poor neighborhoods speaks during an interview at auditorium in Caracas, Venezuela, Monday, March 26, 2018. Mendez spoke one day after that thousands of Venezuelans paid homage to Jose Antonio Abreu, a economist turned visionary musical educator who created a network of youth orchestras that has been replicated around the world. Abreu died at age 78 on Saturday, March 24.(AP Photo/Fernando Llano)