Uruguay to Apply Cuban Literacy Method
Uruguay"s Emergency Plan (PANES) Coordinator, Bertha Sanseverino, announced that the country will introduce Cuba"s Literacy Plan, currently applied in many parts of the world.

Just as Venezuela is supporting us in the productive field, Cuba is giving us assistance in the fields of health and education," Sanseverino commented, as quoted by El Observador daily.

On his part, Coordinator of Education in the Ministry of Social Development, Yamandu Ferraz, said despite illiteracy affects 2.3 percent of the population in the last few years, "it may reach a double-digit figure among the poor population catered for by the PANES."

We are aware that at least more than 40,000 of over 230,000 poor people in the country have not completed primary education, and many others "may be illiterate or functionally illiterate," Ferraz added.