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Venezuela Promises Sweeping Land Reform
 Venezuela's left-leaning government on Tuesday promised to grant poor farmers at least 100,000 plots of land carved from either state property or large private holdings, a step toward implementing a controversial agrarian reform law, a top agricultural official said. Under the 2001 legislation, the government can and does seize land from large estates if it deems the property is not being used productively for agriculture. Eliezer Otaiza, director of the National Land Institute and a close ally of populist President Hugo Chavez, emerged from talks with regional governors on the land reform holding up a pamphlet titled "War Against the Large Estates."Posted by: Fred 2005-01-05 |
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