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Member in Good Standing. Donny Reid has also faced up to the economic problems. The Trujillos left the treasury badly depleted and the sugar-cane-based agriculture in chaos. Reid is carrying out an agrarian reform that, among other things, gives former Trujillo acreage to landless peasants, and is pushing a program to teach modern farming methods. He cut military spending, started a forest-conservation program, tax reform and a plan to build more schools, hospitals, low-cost houses and roads. Most important, he launched an austerity program to bring the nation's foreign spending into line with...
...guerrilla campaigns have sharply reduced poverty-fed banditry in the backlands. That is Valencia's major success. During his 31 months in office, the cost of living has risen 45% , unemployment is up to 10%, and foreign investment to diversify the coffee and mining economy has trickled off. Agrarian reform is at a standstill, with 3% of the people still owning 55% of the land, and the average worker's wage in the cities is only 25? per hour...
Rivers of the Montaña. One of Belaúnde's major preoccupations is agriculture. He has pushed through the country's first major agrarian reform bill, and it is one of the most sensible in Latin America. Belaúnde knows the les sons of Mexico's disastrous ejido system, does not intend to splinter the big. highly productive cotton and sugar estates into thousands of tiny plots, each barely able to support its owner. Instead he will break up only those that do not carry their weight, and satisfy the peasants' land hunger...
...root of the widespread human uselessness that we mistakenly ascribe to automation, we must look into a vast cultural chasm that separates the successfully employed from the so called unemployable ... Although city dwellers, these "unemployables" have the characteristics of the preurban, prefactory villager of the agrarian age." Asbell's themes deserve thoughtful, thorough treatment. It is a shame they are developed with so little insight or discipline in The New Improved American...
...four years after the victory, Rodriguez edited the party daily Hoy, always seemed to turn up close to Castro on the podium at important functions, outranked only by Little Brother Raul, Che Guevara and Bias Roca. In 1962 Rodriguez took over from Fidel as agrarian-reform director and boss of the island's sugar industry-in effect Cuba's economic czar. As Cuba's econ omy continued to fall apart and Castro's relations with Moscow cooled, Rodriguez lost some of his power-over the fishing industry, water resources, and finally the whole sugar industry...