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Article: BOLIVIA: PRESIDENT EVO MORALES PREPARES LAND-REFORM PROGRAM.
- Article from:
- NotiSur - South American Political and Economic Affairs
- Article date:
- June 9, 2006
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The Bolivian government began a sweeping land-reform program in June after negotiations with large-scale landholders broke down in late May. President Evo Morales seeks to conduct a large-scale "agrarian revolution" to distribute farmlands to poor campesinos and to break up latifundios (huge estates), many of which were amassed during past dictatorships. The land-reform program bears similarities to that Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez (see NotiSur, 2005-03-18, 2005-10-28), but also has roots in more than 50 years of different Bolivian administrations' mostly failed efforts to make land distribution more equitable.
On June 3, Morales launched the program by ...