Word: agrarianism
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Subsequently formal title to the Gardens was transferred from the more radical Institute of Agrarian Reform to the middle-of-the-road Ministry of Agriculture...
...wily, slit-eyed Juan de la Cruz Varela, 57, who bosses a 3,300 sq.mi. state-within-a-state, polices Sumapaz with a 150-man cavalry. Anyone, even high central government officials, who wishes to cross Sumapaz must get Varela's safe-conduct pass. Varela calls himself agrarian reformer and has even got himself elected to Colombia's Congress on the votes of poverty-ridden peasants (3,741 Colombians died of starvation and malnutrition in 1958; 1,300,000 are landless today). But Varela's real job is keeping Communism's flag flying, no matter...
...Americans solve problems in their own way--even though American-owned industries would have to be nationalized. There was general assent to a proposal by Jose Moraes of Brazil to nationalize (with compensation) public utilities and basic extractive industries, establish a free-trade area throughout South America, and institute agrarian reform...
...plump, almond-eyed young Peruvian girl named Hilda Gadea, an ardent, exiled member of Apra, Peru's leftist revolutionary movement. Hilda lent Che money to pay his room rent, kept him fed. For a while he peddled encyclopedias, then got a minor job in Guatemala's agrarian-reform program...
...onto the long, cluttered desk, calls in the two Chilean Marxists who are his main economic advisers, and buckles down to work. His wife Aleida serves as his secretary, while his ex-wife Hilda, having moved to Havana with their four-year-old daughter, works at the Che-influenced Agrarian Reform Institute...