Word: agrarian
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...Agrarian reform that will provide for land expropriation and technical, economic and social support to help peasant farmers produce more...
...Statistical studies," he said, "tell us that one-tenth of the Chilean population receives almost half of the national income. This bad distribution of Chile's riches is paid for in malnutrition of the people." Practicing what Silva Henriquez preached about agrarian reform, the Roman Catholic Church in Chile undertook its own land-distribution program, parceling out 13,200 of its own acres in the Andean foothills, and providing financial and technical help to the new proprietors. Cardinal Silva Henriquez has also been the enthusiastic sponsor of Father Pedro Castex, a lively priest in a beret, who lives...
...million. And he found a "lack of coordination among U.S. organizations designed to finance the Alianza, and lack of a central U.S. organization with ample powers to make clear Alianza definitions and decisions." He made little mention of Latin America's failure to institute the substantial tax and agrarian reforms that were to be its contribution...
...flew to Cuba. For two weeks they toured the island as Castro's guests. On his return, Schoeters excitedly informed friends that "Castro is practically a god." There was another trip in 1960, and this time he stayed several months, working, he said, for the National Institute of Agrarian Reform. He met Che Guevara and came home bubbling about that "first-class hero." His apartment, a friend recalls, was littered with Cuban maps, flags, and a prominently displayed copy of Che Guevara's guerrilla warfare manual...
...member nations because they fear most of the capital will come from them. Poland, unable to get the goods it wants from COMECON neighbors, has signed treaties that will raise trade with the West by as much as 40% while it increases its COMECON purchases only 18%. Such predominantly agrarian countries as Poland, Hungary, Bulgaria and Rumania, which want desperately to build new industries, are beginning to look on COMECON's tendency to expand their mining and agricultural output as a devious device to keep them forever down on the farm and unable to build their own industry...