Ché Guevara Legacy Lives
in Bolivia
The spirit of Latin
American independence
fighter Ernesto Ché
Guevara is being revived
in the Bolivian towns of
Vallegrande and Pucar ,
which today are being
declared free of
illiteracy, thanks to
the Cuban-designed
audiovisual method Yes I
Can.
Cuban teachers have
succeeded in dropping
the illiteracy rate from
two thousand to 34 in
Villegrande, in an area
considered sacred ground
by world revolutionaries
40 years after Ché's
death.
Nearby Pucara is half an
hour from the actual
site of his murder, La
Higuera.
That was the first place
freed from illiteracy in
medical and educational
missions that remind of
Ché's internationalism,
in which more than 100
local teachers
collaborate.
Collaborators have
donated 95 solar panels
and equipment to
guarantee projection of
the televised classes in
remote areas.
A total of 64 Bolivian
municipalities have been
declared free of
iliteracy in one and a
half years of as program
advised by Cuban and
Venezuelan specialists,
and official statistics
say 351,047 have learned
to read and write.
The language program
also includes native
tongues.
Meanwhile, Cuban
optometrists have
attended 251,825 eye
patients and given free
eyeglasses. |
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