Propaganda, not policy
Hugo Chávez has not ended illiteracy
FOR most of her life, Ana Silva was illiterate, even though she completed primary school. Then she joined Misión Robinson, a literacy programme organised by Venezuela's president, Hugo Chávez. Once a hospital cleaner, she is now a nursing auxiliary and hopes to study social work in Cuba. Her colleagues at work no longer have to help her decipher her payslip. “We live better,” she says. “We live like people.”
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Propaganda, not policy”
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