Monday, September 3, 2007

Land Reforms in Countries of Latin America

Huberman and Sweezy, the Marxist Critics, have made an analysis of the land reform of the Alliance for Progress and have proved that it had no probability for success. The city bourgeoisie of Latin America would not give up its’ spots easily; in its place, a more practical step was required to give a impulse to the nonviolent revolution. A perfect example to this point that was made by the two researchers is the agrarian agenda that was accepted in Guatemala from 1952 till 1953. These two man which have made a decision to carry out the reform belonged to social democrats of a middle class, where the aim was 200,00 acres of unfarmed land possessed by the United Fruit Co. The Government of Guatemala determined the fee for the land, which was about $3.6 million for t View the rest of this article


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