On April 29th, Cuba, Bolivia and Venezuela signed the Agreement for the Application of the Bolivarian Alternative for the Peoples of Our America and the Peoples’ Trade Agreements in Havana. Check this out:
Article 4: The countries shall work together, in coordination with other Latin American countries, to eradicate illiteracy in these nations, using efficient, tried and tested methods of mass application, which have been successfully used in the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela.
Article “4″ must mean they’re going to take it pretty seriously. More story from the BBC. And more on the mass education program.
I wonder if that’ll do anything for freedom in Cuban libraries… who’ll rub off on whom? I like that they totally gave the boot to the FTAA and took such a different approach to trade agreements. Imagine: global trade consisting of massive interlibrary loan programs!
S.