Agrarian Reform in Latin America

JUST a decade ago, was anathema through out most of the Western hemisphere. Only visionaries, revo lutionaries and a few staff members of international agencies paid it any heed. Latin American governments spurned it, and the U.S. Government ignored or disapproved of it. In the two countries where it had taken place, Mexico and Bolivia, it was the product of violent revolution. In i960 a government of the democratic Left in Venezuela fulfilled a long-standing campaign pledge by pushing through an agrarian reform law and pressing its application. From Cuba, Fidel Castro, professing his be a peasant movement, called upon the other hemispheric societies follow his revolutionary lead. The United States moved counteract his disrupting im pact throughout the two continents and, at a plenipotentiary con ference in i960, the Act of Bogot? was constituted, incorporating the call for reform and the promise of U.S. funds. Agrarian reform achieved full respectability at Punta del Este in August 1961. The delegates, many reluctantly, signed the declaration, which included a commitment to encourage... pro grams of comprehensive agrarian reform leading the effective transformation, where required, of unjust structures and systems of land tenure

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• Modernization from above versus reform from below

  James F Petras, James Petras et al.•The Journal of Development Studies•1970

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