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Article: VENEZUELA: LAND-REFORM PROGRAM SEEKS TO BREAK UP LATIFUNDIOS, EXPAND RURAL SECTOR.
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- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- March 18, 2005
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Conflict over President Hugo Chavez's land-reform program has grown, with the Instituto Nacional de Tierras (INTI) seeking to break up large and idle estates. The drive is an effort to revitalize the Venezuelan rural and agricultural sector and decrease the concentration of lands in the hands of a small number of the wealthy, but critics and ranchers who stand to lose property say the effort will cause reduced production.
"War" on large estates
In January, INTI kicked its efforts to break up large estates into high gear, stating it would analyze the nation's lands in response to Chavez's presidential decree on land tenancy and his declared "war against ...