Bolivia declares literacy success

[dipsydoodle]

A 30-month campaign to teach thousands of poor Bolivians to read and write has made the country "illiteracy free", President Evo Morales has declared.

The "Yes I can" campaign, designed by Cuba and paid for by Venezuela, helped more than 800,000 Bolivians.

Under Unesco standards, a country can be declared free of illiteracy if 96% of its population over the age of 15 can read and write.

In 2001, a census found nearly 14% of Bolivians were illiterate.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7794293.stm

That means they'll all be able to read what a load of shit WaPo wrote here in sfexpat2000's post : http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=405x10623

[Judi Lynn]

1. How interesting to read Bolivia is the THIRD country in S. America to become

illiteracy free. The article explains that under UNESCO standards, a country having more than 96% literacy in people over 15 years of age is considered free of illiteracy.

Quite the huge step forward, considering how much physical abuse, torture, genocide, vicious discrimination, and filthy slandering by the racist Caucasian thugs they've had to endure, being treated all the while as sub-human idiots. This is tremendous.

It also speaks well for the Cuban teachers to have become so skilled they could teach literacy in Aymara and Quechua.