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...they stood respectfully and listened for more than an hour as the man in the short-sleeved guayabera shirt exhorted them to hard work and clean living. The scene looked familiar-an absentee landlord come to survey his patrimony, perhaps. In fact, the speaker was José Antonio Morales Ehrlich, a member of El Salvador's ruling junta and head of the country's far-reaching land-reform program. The campesinos represented 14 new cooperative farms in the area, encompassing 31,148 acres and 1,551 peasant families. They had come to watch Ehrlich swear in their newly...
...overworked land. "He was a worse s.o.b. than the sons," one worker recalled. Naturally, there was less and less for the campesinos. Finally the owners stripped the plantation, shipping out the fertilizer, selling off the cattle, dismantling the machinery. When land reform came to the Finca Florencia, as Ehrlich put it, "all we had to give to the campesinos was the land itself." Now Angel's legacy-the fertile, volcanic soil as well as the shuttered house, the cracked, weed-filled swimming pool and the primitive courtyard workrooms-belongs to the great-grandchildren of those who labored to build...
...work even harder than before. El Salvador's land-reform program is based on the hope that the country's peasants will be willing to do so, and that land ownership will wean their loyalty away from the leftists and toward the government. The appearance of Ehrlich, who is touring the new cooperatives "village by village, finca by finca," is evidence of the degree to which the government has staked its future on land reform's success. At the Finca Florencia, he told campesinos of the risks and hardships ahead. "Now that power has changed hands, each...
After the speech came the hard questions, as the peasant representatives voiced their doubts and worries. But Ehrlich was impressively armed with straight answers. The rainy season was almost here, said one man, yet no one has received any money for his labor (workers are paid $5.50 per day by the government) or for the crops. "The men don't mind working for a couple of weeks without pay," another added, "as long as they can be sure it is coming." Ehrlich answered that the central bank hoped to send out checks within a week. "We wish to promise...
...morning early last week, three members of El Salvador's ruling civilian-military junta were busy making surprisingly festive appearances at widely separated haciendas. At a rich estate in the San Isidro Valley, José Antonio Morales Ehrlich addressed a solemn crowd of peasants gathered on the soccer field. "In El Salvador, the exploitation of the peasants has definitely ended," he told them. "Today you work the land for your own benefit." Another junta member, José Ramón Avalos Navarrete, presided over ceremonies at a sugar and coffee plantation near the Guatemala border. At a cotton plantation...