[lit-ideas] Re: Adios, amigo.


US:

>>Inspiring stuff.

EY:
Yeah, if you believe it. I spoke to a Venezuelan doctor about Fidel's sponsor, Chavez, achieving 100 percent literacy in his nation. Turns out the measure of "literacy" was the ability to sign one's name. Peasants were taught to sign their names so they could vote for Chavez. That's all they were taught, and hence were considered literate. 

From the CIA's "The World's Fact Book" entry for Cuba:
     Literacy: definition: age 15 and over can read and write
     total population: 99.8%
     male: 99.8%
     female: 99.8% (2002 census)
     https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/print/cu.html
Thing is, almost everybody in Latin America knows about this kind of duplicitous stuff.
Hmmmm. You'd think someone somewhere along the line would have told the CIA. 

Mike Geary
Memphis



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