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Before 1959, the literacy rate for Cuba was approximately 77%, as noted by UNESCO. This was the 4th highest rate in Latin America. The Cuban government of Fidel Castro at Che Guevara's behest dubbed 1961 the "year of education" and sent "literacy brigades" out into the countryside to construct schools, train new educators, and teach the predominantly illiterate guajiros (peasants) to read and write. By 1962, the country's literacy rate was 96%, one of the highest in the world.[3] In 2010, according to UNESCO, Cuba's literacy rate for those above the age of 15 was 99 percent. Economists at Oxford University's Our World In Data project (using a compilation of Oxford, World Bank, and UNESCO resources) calculated that, during that same 50-year period (1960–2010), Bolivia's literacy rate increased from 44 to 92 percent; Brazil's from 60 to 91 percent; Colombia's from 70 to 94 percent and Paraguay's from 73 to 94 percent. As of 2011, the median reported literacy rate for Latin America and the Caribbean was 93 percent.