Reading the Revolution: An Analysis of the Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980

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International Studies (BA)

Alexander, Iñigo (2016)

Reading the Revolution: An Analysis of the Nicaraguan National Literacy Crusade of 1980

Bachelor thesis | International Studies (BA)

This thesis shall address the factors that influenced the development of Nicaragua’s revolutionary movement in order to assess whether the Nicaraguan case fell under the umbrella of the Domino Theory, or whether it was a legitimate, autonomous national movement that sought national change. In order to best represent this, the National Nicaraguan Literacy Crusade of 1980 shall be employed as a case study, and the reasons behind its implementation and its political use shall be addressed in order to present that, despite foreign influence and the Cold War politics at the time, the revolutionary movement in Nicaragua was the result of an accumulation of national internal factors that resulted from the genuine revolutionary urge within the country.