Chavez announces “war against the latifundia”

international | miscellaneous | other press Thursday January 13, 2005 00:36 by hs - sp

Chavez announced a new decree aimed at speeding up land reform

At a mass rally of 10,000 people on Monday January 10, Venezuela’s president Hugo Chavez announced a new decree aimed at speeding up land reform. Since the Land Act was passed in December 2001, the National Land Institute has already distributed 5.5 million acres of land to peasant cooperatives. Up until now all the land distributed has been state-owned land and there have been no expropriations. The new decree is aimed at the large landed estates (latifundia) that have been left idle or are poorly used. (January 12, 2005)

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/venezuela_land_reform.htm


Also an interesting interview with leftist William Azzaa, of interest for the role our very own mic smurfit might play in the coming months.

http://www.marxist.com/Latinam/interview_william_izarra.htm