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Article: Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin American
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- Journal of Third World Studies
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- April 1, 1999
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Thiesenhusen, William C. Broken Promises: Agrarian Reform and the Latin American Campesino. Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1995.
Land and labor are two fundamental issues for an understanding of Latin America. Since the colonial period, the relationship between land and labor has defined the societies that emerged from the conquest. The process of land dispossession from the peasantry and Indian communities by the large landowners has continued unabated since that period. Independence brought no relief to the rural masses as expropriation of land increased with the world market demand for agricultural export commodities. The impoverishment of the peasantry contributed to the commodification ...