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...Chile, consists of some 15 million Indians and a handful of descendants of the Spanish conquistadors. The Indians work the land; the aristocracy owns it. Hunger-pinched, and with a life expectancy of 32 years, the Indians live in what amounts to medieval serfdom. Their circumstances show why agrarian reform is a popular cry throughout Latin America. Last week TIME Correspondent Harvey Rosenhouse visited a hacienda high in the Peruvian Andes. His report...
...hemisphere's 22 nations. Described by Garcia Bustillos, the Venezuelan Congressman who opened the meeting, as "international but not an International," the Christian Democrats declare themselves dedicated enemies of colonialism, capitalism and Communism. They preach a social revolution that must use orderly and just means. They advocate immediate agrarian reform, demand careful state regulation of corporate profits, and complete labor union, freedom. Says Leónidas Xausa, 28, city councilman in Pórto Alegre, Brazil: "The future of Latin America will be decided between Christian Democracy and Communism...
...Front (Frente), a fragile union of five organizations that held much the same point of view as their "coordinator," Manuel Antonio (Tony) Varona, 52-that "the need for agrarian reform in Cuba is a myth." The land expropriated by Castro, says Varona, onetime head of the old-line Auténtico Party, should be returned to its original owners except for "about 15%" that is not productive. Later, another organization came to the CIA's attention: the People's Revolutionary Movement (M.R.P.), led and founded by Manuel ("Manolo") Ray,* 36, a soft-spoken engineer whose talent for organization...
Thomas pointed out that from the founding of the republic until the death of Henry Wallace's agrarian party in 1948 there had always been some considerable movement or body of opinion advocating a thorough change in the status quo. The lack of a radical party, Senator McCarthy notwithstanding, is uncharacteristic of America, he said...
Your article on local support for education [which described a device, based on property taxes, for evaluating school districts' local support for their schools] is seriously misleading. In the good old agrarian days, you could measure community support of schools solely via the local property tax. But those days are gone. Thousands of school districts are now more than half supported by state and federal funds. The School Management survey measures today's effort by yesterday's standards, which is hardly the way to the New Frontier...