The Cuban Literacy Campaign was the world's most ambitious and organized presidential campaign.
 The literacy campaigns were even further propelled into the international stage by the 2004 creation of the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (Spanish: Alianza Bolivariana para los Pueblos de Nuestra America, ALBA)
 The percentage of children enrolled in school in Cuba (ages 612) increased dramatically over the years:195356%197088%1986nearly 100%It is estimated that 268,000 Cubans worked to eliminate illiteracy during the Year of Education, and around 707,000 Cubans became literate by December 22, 1961

