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An Analysis Of The Bolivian Land Reform By Means Of A Comparison Between Peruvian Haciendas And Bolivian Ex-Haciendas, Melvin Burke
An Analysis Of The Bolivian Land Reform By Means Of A Comparison Between Peruvian Haciendas And Bolivian Ex-Haciendas, Melvin Burke
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In April of 1952, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario, seized power in Bolivia and in August of the following year passed the Decreto de la Reforma Agraria and proceeded to redistribute the land of the latifundios to the former Indian laborers. This paper intends to analyze the economic and socio-economic consequences of this Bolivian revolutionary land redistribution by means of a comparative study of Peruvian haciendas and Bolivian ex-haciendas in the Lake Titicaca region.
The present study will follow the plan thus indicated. The first section introduces the subject of land reform with a review of the literature and the …