Uruguay pioneered universal, free, and compulsory primary education in the Americas under the influence of José Pedro Varela, whose writings convinced the government to pass the 1877 Law of Common Education (which was implemented by his brother Jacobo Varela, Orestes Araújo and others).
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Born in Minorca, he settled in Montevideo in 1870 and worked in the newspaper La Paz, established by José Pedro Varela.