“The dream of the parents here is that our children continue their education after the age of 15,” my host mother in rural Ramón García, Nicaragua told me. She didn’t have the opportunity to attend school but benefited from the adult literacy campaign after the 1979 revolution. Alfebetización, or the literacy campaign, was launched in the early 1980s by the Sandinistas, members of a socialist party in Nicaragua. University students paused their studies to travel to rural areas of the country, teaching literacy to adults.