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...languished ten years in British jails, Narayan formerly led the Socialists and was long considered heir apparent to Nehru. Then restless, diabetic Narayan became entranced with the mission of Vinoba Bhave, the saintly ascetic who tramps about India asking landlords to make a gift of their acres to landless peasants. In 1954, dropping the leadership of the Socialists, Narayan announced that he was giving up politics and making the gift of his life to Bhave's cause...
...foreign land companies, i.e., U.S.-owned sugar firms, must give up their plantations within a year, in exchange for government bonds that may be worth only a quarter of the land's actual value; Cuban landowners must give up all holdings greater than 3,316 acres; 300,000 landless peasants will get 66 acres each (which multiplies out to more than Cuba's total arable land); the peasants must plant what the government tells them, meet government production goals, and they may not sell the land. "We haven't taken over this government to play games," said...
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...