Weekly Report - 16 October 2014 (WR-14-41)

GUATEMALA | Stamping out illiteracy. President Otto Pérez Molina boasted last week that Zacapa had become the country’s first department to be declared free of illiteracy. Speaking in a sports centre in Zacapa, Pérez Molina said illiteracy in the eastern department had fallen to 3.3%: the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) states that any region with illiteracy below 4% can declare itself to be ‘free of illiteracy’.