Friday, May 04, 2007

5% own 75% – And Hugo hates it!

The news is that the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavéz’s interface with socialism has now progressed from anti- Americanism to domestic land reform. But his land reforms move has faced widespread criticism from the West. How much is true?

Jacobo Arbenz’s 1954 attempts in Guatemala and Salvador Allende’s 1970-73 attempts in Chile, to initiate land reforms, met with Washington’s ire and CIA sponsored coup. But the fact is that Chavéz treads cautiously, learning steadily from history. The ‘Law on Land and Agricultural Development’ was enacted in November 2001, after which the government seized land from the biggest private estates before redistributing it among the landless. Since 2001, the government has seized more than 2 million hectares of land under the agrarian reform programme.

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Source : IIPM Editorial, 2006

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