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Article: Venezuelan government declares large ranch state land
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- March 23, 2005
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ALICE M. CHACON, Associated Press Writer
AP Worldstream
03-23-2005
Dateline: CARACAS, Venezuela
Venezuela's government declared a vast cattle ranch to be state land and began handing out permits for poor farmers to keep working on lands also claimed by a British-owned company, officials said.
The government move Tuesday at El Charcote ranch in the central state of Cojedes marked a significant step in a land reform effort that President Hugo Chavez has called a "war on large estates."
Holding a ceremony at the ranch, Agriculture Minister Antonio Albarran and other officials declared the ranch is now officially under state control, said Carlos Espina, a spokesman for the state governor's office.
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