Authorities from the Argentine municipality of Concordia praised the application in that territory of the Cuban literacy program "Yo Si puedo" (Yes I can).
 
Mayor Gustavo Bordet told Cuban Ambassador Jorge Lamadrid he was grateful for the successful progress in cooperation in this field.
 
In an interview with Prensa Latina, Lamadrid said that Bordet announced that the Operation Miracle program is soon to be implemented in that town as well.
 
Operation Miracle will allow low-income residents to receive free surgery for cataracts or pterygium.
 
The first patients will travel to the Dr. Ernesto Che Guevara Eye Center in Cordoba in January, he said.
 
Lamadrid attended the graduation ceremony for 139 people who became literate through the Yes I Can program. They are part of the 19 844 Argentineans that has learned how to read and write through "Yes I Can" program.
 
Lamadrid praised the experience applied in Concordia with the help of 110 first-year students from the teachers college.
 
The Cuban literacy program was applied for the first time in Argentina in 2003 through the foundation "A Better World is Possible" (UMMEP), whose president, Claudia Camba, said 20,000 citizens would become literate this year.