With an act in which he gave himself acknowledgments to the best students and teachers in the country in 2022, the president Daniel Ortega and the vice president Rosario Murillo commemorated the 43rd anniversary of the National Literacy Day a feat and triumph for the Nicaraguan people that the president recalled from its origins to the actions that are practiced today, with the implementation of projects on the island of Rama Cay, located 15 kilometers from Bluefields in the Caribbean Sur and in the Coco River areas.
Ortega considered illiteracy as a diseasea virus that attacks even developed countries, where beggars and poverty also abound, recalled the words of Rubén Darío during his stay in New York, when Panida was surprised by the opulent wealth of large buildings and the painful contrast of the poverty of those who lived and died under the bridges of that city.
“He illiteracy It is a disease, a virus that is caused by the capitalist systemthere are the causes, it is a system made to make the rich richer and the poor poorer and where it is not a priority eradicate poverty and extreme poverty or illiteracy, but simply, it is a system that has been imposed on the world, a system that has been surpassed in many countries, in many nations and that here in Nicaragua we face this virus with the triumph of the revolutionbecause there was no other chanceonly with a revolution could literacy be given, otherwise it would be to continue with the darkness of illiteracy”, pointed out the president.
Ortega He remembered the origin of literacy, he went back to a clandestine guerrilla training camp in the mountains, where there were some commanders of the Sandinista Front and many peasants and workers who little by little joined and who could not read or write, but Francisco Morenoalias the “Chele Negro”, set out to teach the first letters to one of them.
“And being there on the mountain and incorporating the farmers from the area that young people came, others a little older who did not know how to read and write, then it occurred to Chele Moreno, since he had had a practice from here that we were literacyIt occurred to him to grab one of the peasants, he came and sat with him and began to teach him and then another joined him, Carlos he didn’t know what he was doing and he passed to Carlos (Fonseca) and when he sees that he is there and asks what are they doing?, here, the man told him Clawsit is that they do not know how to read and write and we are teaching them, it was then that Carlos said: “also teach them to read”, he expressed.
The president also recalled that armed forces financed by the United States and the Nicaraguan oligarchy, just one month and eighteen days away, they murdered the first literacy teacher, Georgino Andradea fact that, far from intimidating the thousands of young people and adults who participated in the day, encouraged them to be firmer and to incorporation of thousands of others, the president also assured that when he returned to power in 2007 he again found an increase in illiteracy Therefore, programs were oriented to start a new working dayso that the farmer and producer with knowledge had better returns from his work, in addition to being able to read and write allows a person to be able to start a business and have better opportunities developmental.
“Also to be able to participate in the ventures Since they can participate with basic knowledge and with entrepreneurship they can develop better, if they have a small business that has a farmer, a worker, they will be able to develop it better for the producers they can have a better performance and so that small, medium and large merchants can have a better performance of their activitiesso we have to continue alerts so that when we have a focus of illiteracy we have to go like firefighters, to put out that focus and we are sure that all of you young people are aware of the value of knowledgeof the value of the education and therefore they have a heart willing to love their neighbor as oneself and therefore to share the knowledge with those who are in conditions more difficult”the president pointed out in front of the young students.
The president also took advantage of the speech to refer to the hard times from humanity which has been subjected by the great powers, especially in terms of slavery, practiced above all by the European countrieswho traded in the lives of Africans, transporting them to Europe and the United States, as well as their colonies, pointing out that this is why in the Caribbean coast multiculturalism exists, due to the Afro-descendant population and the original peoples who preserve their own languageswho were also brought the bread of knowledge in their own language.
Journalist: Hector Calero