Literacy Vital to Change in Bolivia
Education Minister Felix Patzi affirmed Wednesday that the literacy campaign to free Bolivia from this scourge by 2009 is crucial for the current process of changes to succeed.

A country's development is gauged through its literacy and number of professionals, and in our case education also is a way to make people aware of social transformations.

Reading and writing will help many Bolivians overcome poverty and "we will become a different nation no one will be able to mislead to the style of previous neoliberal governments," added Patzi.

The minister said 100,000 Bolivians had already successfully completed the literacy campaign begun March 20 with Cuban technology and the project "Yo, si puedo”.

He added that Bolivia was deprived over 500 years from the human right to education so it is high time to eliminate colonization and declare Bolivia free of illiteracy in 2009.