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...including the Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA) led by Roberto d'Aubuisson. Under a compromise adopted last December, Phase 2 now applies only to farms larger than 605 acres, but so far, none of the land in question has been redistributed. Phase 3, known as the land-to-the-tiller program, also went ahead in 1980. It allowed an estimated 117,000 landless farmers and their families to purchase the small (up to 17 acres) plots that they had previously worked as tenants or sharecroppers. In all, some 228,230 acres of land, or 6% of El Salvador...
...even greater concern is the scheduled end of Phase 3 reforms, a "land-to-the-tiller" program that has been enabling peasants to buy on government credit the tiny parcels of land that they now farm. Partly because of intimidation by landlords, only about half of those eligible have enrolled, and the program is scheduled to expire...
...responds slowly and softly. "He is rocklike," says an aide. In the assessment of one French diplomat, "he appears bien dans sa peau, self-confident." This reassuring style, more than anything else, showed that U.S. foreign policy, although not on a perfect course, has a steadier hand on the tiller. - By Walter Isaacson. Reported by Gregory H. Wierzynski/United Nations
What outraged Duarte was the sweeping nature of the resolution. President Alvaro Alfredo Magana's original proposal was to continue the exemption, first enacted last year, of cotton and sugar cane acreage from the so-called land-to-the-tiller reform decree, which enables tenant farmers and sharecroppers to acquire plots of up to 17 acres from their landlords. The suspension, for one growing season (a year for cotton, three to four years for sugar cane), was aimed at ensuring high production of two of the country's leading exports at a time of economic strain...
...Under Phase 3, the so-called land-to-the-tiller decree, peasants were permitted to buy the tiny plots (up to 17 acres) that they had been working as tenant farmers or sharecroppers. About 29,000 farmers, out of a potential 125,000, have applied for ownership...