Word: landless
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even when they aim strictly at giving land to the landless, most Latin American countries lack the capital and skill needed to make land reform work. The new landowner rarely gets the needed seeds, credit, machinery, farm animals: Unchecked, he often sells his land back to the estate owner...
...Cases." Castro noted that there would be some "lamentable cases" covered by the law. "If all those cases were considered, laws would be converted into telephone books." But on the face of it, Castro's law was a response to the fact that 200,000 rural Cubans are landless and often unemployed. He plans to parcel out the sugar land in free lots of at least 66 acres for each farm family. "Colonization stations," with tractors and agricultural experts, will help the new landowners, he said. He runs the reform institute personally, and to help him he picked...
...sound economic measures but attempts to destroy the latifundistas as a political class. ¶ Mexico's victorious rebels of 1910-17 burned down the stately haciendas, handed out land helter-skelter-and watched farm production sag. By 1940, when 64 million acres had been given to landless families, agricultural output stood 20% lower than in 1910. Reason: the new landowners were content to raise just enough to eat, committed such disastrous follies as smashing irrigation dams to plant crops in the fertile lakebeds. Only half a century later did Mexico become a big producer...
...beginning on agrarian reform for the 800,000 country dwellers including landless guajiros (peasants) who live in dirt-floor, thatch-palm huts, subsist on the $3 daily they earn during the three-month sugar harvest...
...expropriating Cananea, President Ruiz Cortines was only doing what every Mexican has expected of every Mexican president since 1911, when illiterate Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata cried "Land and Liberty!" In the first 18 years of the program six Presidents handed over 17½ million acres to landless peasants. Land Reformer Lazaro Cárdenas (1934-40) parceled out 45 million acres; Avila Camacho (1940-46). 13 million acres; Miguel Alemán (1946-52). 10 million. In all, 93 million acres, nearly 20% of Mexico's total area, were handed over to 2,000,000 landless peons, who organized themselves...