The Abinader administration has spent RD$3.04 billion to teach 21,444 persons to read from 2020 to 2022, Diario Libre reports. The Plan Quisqueya Aprende Contigo, the governmental scheme to teach people to read and write began in 2015 during the President Danilo Medina administration. In 2015, when the cost to teach a person to read and write was around RD$4,393.
With the change of government, in the Abinader administration, the cost of each person reportedly taught to read and write skyrocketed to RD$141,873.71 per person in 2022, according to data from the Department of Strategic and Special Projects of the Presidency (Propeep).
The former director of Propeep, Jose Leonel (Neney) Cabrera seeks to be the ruling Modern Revolutionary Party (PRM) candidate in the National District.
YouTube and TV journalist Francisco Tavarez (El Democrata) has denounced to the Attorney General that Neney Cabrera has threatened him after he presented online and on TV the irregularities in the read and write government program during the term of Cabrera at the Propeep.
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20 July 2023