Word: reforms
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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...
...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 a onetime Communist youth leader named Antonio Nunez Jimenez...
THIS means the great landed estates will be broken up throughout Latin America," said a top U.S. sugar broker last week, as Fidel Castro signed his agrarian reform decree. The Castro bill quickened Latin America's deep yearning to reap a better living from underdeveloped land. The Venezuelan Cabinet, for example, moved ahead with a land reform bill...
...resulted in a satisfactory adjustment between population and land resources." Pressure has been growing against the latifundios ever since Mexican Revolutionary Emiliano Zapata raised his famous war cry of "land and liberty" in 1910. Many Latin American constitutions nowadays contain a fervent clause about the need for land reform. At a meeting of the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America last week in Panama, the 21 hemisphere nations recommended agrarian reform "whenever appropriate...
...mere fact that land reform seems overdue has never guaranteed that it will work. Most attempts have been disastrous failures, chiefly because they were hastily executed and designed not as 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...