Nicaragua Proclaims Education Anthem
Managua - Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega
issued a decree, establishing that the 1980
National Literacy Teaching Crusade Anthem
would become the Nicaraguan Education anthem
from now on.
The measure was adopted in commemoration of
the 29th anniversary of the national
literacy teaching campaign carried out in
1980 that was a milestone in national
history, as one of the peak expressions of
popular participation, the decree said.
With that effort, more than 400,000
Nicaraguans were taught basic literacy,
lowering the illiteracy rate from 50.36 to
12.96 percent.
Nicaragua was proclaimed on Saturday a
territory free of illiteracy, with a rate
below 3.56 percent, according to Education
Ministry figures.
The national literacy teaching crusade
anthem's music was written by Nicaraguan
singer songwriter Carlos Mejia Godoy.
This is an ode to the heroic feat in 1980
and the national literacy teaching campaign
from the times of Marti to thos of Fidel
Castro, developed by the government of
reconciliation and national unity, during
the period from 2007 to 2009, the
presidential decree said. |
