Nicaraguans Learn to Read and Write
About 20,000 Nicaraguans from 75 municipalities have learned to read and write in this Central American country this year, thanks to the public instruction campaign based on the Cuban method, Yes, I can.

In a rally held in that nation, former Nicaraguan President and leader of the Sandinista National Liberation Front Daniel Ortega praised the social success of the teaching program and Cuba s cooperation in its implementation.

"Yes, I Can" is a program created by Cuba s Latin American and Caribbean Pedagogical Institute, which received the UNESCO 2006 Rey Sejong Literacy Prize for the promotion of such methods to help third world nations.

Ortega noted that Yes, I Can is a very advanced method, and one of the world s newest, which is promoted and developed even in the smallest communities of the central American country, where everybody has the possibility to learn to read and write, thanks to Cuban president Fidel Castro.