Blockade Doesn't Stop Cuba's Sharing

Despite the US blockade, Cuba continues to share the achievements of its notable success in educational development with many peoples of the world, a Cuban diplomat highlighted in Peru.

Pastor Rodriguez spoke Thursday night in a conference offered at the fourth Cuban Book Festival, "Entre el Amor, Las Ideas y Los Sones"

in Lima, where he reviewed Cuban educative work and its main achievements.

He pointed out that Cuba has already surpassed educative goals fixed for the year 2015 by UNESCO, a UN organization that recognizes Cuba as among the four countries with greatest educative performance.

Rodriguez noted that the Caribbean island has the greatest number of teachers per inhabitant in the world, and will soon have a university graduate for every 11 inhabitants.

The Cuban "Yo Si Puedo" method to teach literacy is one of the most advanced in the world, with successful application in more than 25 nations of the globe.

Since 1961, Cuba has cooperated with 154 countries of the world, with 270,743 collaborators, 113,585 of them health professionals.