Word: agrarians
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Campbell said the Sandinistas have reduced illiteracy, passed agrarian reforms, and promised elections in 1985, just six years after the 1979 revolution. The United States, he added, took far longer to institute popular elections...
...made it unlikely that the masterminds of the murders would quickly, if ever, be punished. For that reason, the AFL-CIO last week in Washington revealed details of the killings and their aftermath that had not yet been made public. Two of the victims, Michael Peter Hammer, 42, an agrarian reform specialist, and Lawyer Mark David Pearlman, 36, were in El Salvador on assignment for the American Institute for Free Labor Development, the AFL-CIO's Latin-American arm. The third victim, José Rodolfo Viera, 43, was both head of the farmworkers' union and president...
...many campesinos' fears that the rightists are out to halt the land-reform program altogether. One deputy who voted for the winning motion acknowledged as much afterward when he said that the next step could be to break up the large cooperatives formed under Phase I of the agrarian reforms. Labor organizations joined with the campesinos last week in a call for a general strike to protest the assembly's decisions...
...Leaders of two large campesino organizations charge that since the election, thousands of peasants have been illegally evicted from their plots by landowners who are frequently backed by paramilitary forces and local police. Says Roy Prosterman, a U.S. law professor who was a consultant on El Salvador's agrarian reforms: "There is currently a popular expression in the assembly, 'Land reform is fine, but it has to be perfected.' Many of us fear that that is a code word for 'destroyed...
...Agrarian Transformation (ISTA): "If ARENA reverses the reforms, there will be a river of blood through this country...