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...Although as the panel points out, much of Central America's future depends on the policies it adopts U.S. assistance is vital in providing the region with a head start. Washington should continue its support for agrarian reform which will lessen the power of local oligarchies and offer the peasant some hope of livelihood. In addition, the U.S. should be generous in supplying technical and monetary aid in helping the Central American nations diversity their agricultural sector so as to make countries more self-sufficient for food and less dependent on one crop economies...
...touches of capitalism have crept back into the state-controlled Cuban economy. After fulfilling state quotas, peasant farmers and artisans are now permitted to sell their surplus goods at free-market prices. As a result of the mild free-enterprise revival, some Cubans have more pocket money to spend these days, and the government allows personal savings accounts of up to $2,000 to earn 2% interest. Higher returns are forbidden, says a Cuban banker, because "we don't want people living off their interest...
...collection also includes two novellas that rank as classics, not only in Colette's canon, but in all of 20th century French literature. The Tender Shoot is the story of a singularly nasty middle-aged roue's pursuit of a 15-year-old peasant girl. Upon this squalid tale, Colette lavished her most lyrical language and poetic fancies, heightening the sense of evil...
...Night of the Shooting Stars. In 1944, a score of Tuscan villagers flee from the Nazis into a landscape of nightmare poetry. Italian Film Makers Paolo and Vittorio Taviani find aspects of nobility in every eccentric peasant...
Agrarian reform was to have taken place in three stages, each providing for purchase, not expropriation, of farm land. The first phase, under which the country's largest farms were turned into peasant-run cooperatives, is complete. Phase 2 had called for giving medium-size plantations to peasant farmers. Under the new Salvadoran law, however, Phase 2 was substantially diluted: the current owners may keep almost 60% of the land that was to be redistributed, and a loophole could let them sell the remainder to family-held corporations...