Latin America Must Educate People
Latin America is undergoing favorable political moments, however, there are still huge debts in education of its peoples at a time when integration is of key importance to develop a regional teaching philosophy.

"To develop this thought is also to defend identity, which requires government strategies," Tomasa Romero, Cuban vice minister of Education told Prensa Latina. She is participating here in the II Inter governmental Meeting of the Regional Education Project.

She assured that, excepting Venezuela, Cuba, Bolivia and other member countries of the Bolivarian Alternative of the Americas (ALBA), instead of improving, the region lacks funds and the desire to develop massive programs of education.

The Vice Minister questioned how illiteracy and functional illiteracy have decreased as part of the ALBA integration policy.

According to international institutions, Latin America has the largest educational disparity in the world; a situation in which 41 million children are in abject poverty and 22 million must work to survive.

It is estimated that there are 40 million totally illiterate people, without counting the large number of functional illiterates that still exist.