ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on literacy in Nicaragua during the years of revolution, which ‘officially’ ended with the elections of 25 February 1990 when the United National Opposition alliance defeated the FSLN1 and Violeta Chamorro became President. The Nicaraguan Revolution affords a rich and distinctive setting within which to explore literacy. The word-in-print encapsulates much of the character of the revolution, symbolically and materially. It comprised both a site of struggle and a medium for struggle during this period, and gave symbolic and literal expression to the achievements and frustrations, goals and contradictions, aspirations and tensions that collectively ivere the Nicaraguan Revolution.
