... opportunities for him. In Chile, the recently inaugurated administration of Eduardo Frei made popular education part of a larger Christian Democratic state project of promoting land reform and the enlargement of what we now call civil society. Central to Frei's vision was a plan to eradicate illiteracy...

... as popular education and among those in the academic world who practice what they call critical pedagogy. As the second decade of the twenty-first century begins, literacy campaigns as part of state projects are still often associated with the Left, whether in Hugo Chavez's Venezuela or in Maoist Nepal...