Bolivian town free of illiteracy

The municipality of Tolata, in the central department of Cochabamba, has been declared the first Bolivian community free of illiteracy, after successfully teaching 700 people to read and write. Illiterate inhabitants learned to read in less than a year through the Cuban method “Yo Si Puedo” (Yes, I Can). The aim of the Bolivian national literacy program is to teach 1.2 million illiterate people how to read and write and declare the country free of illiteracy by 2008. Read more of this article from Prensa Latina, a Latin American news agency.