Land Reform under the Alliance for Progress

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The Alliance for Progress has made land reform the cornerstone of agricultural development in Latin America. A careful evaluation of its achievements and mechanics shows that after three years of operation, an insignificant number of farmers have been beneficiaries of such “reforms.” At the same time, the Latin nations' task of assisting farm people without, or without sufficient, land grows at an alarming rate. The best visible result of the Alliance seems to be the enactment of a large number of land reform laws, which have become effective instruments not for carrying out large scale reforms but for stalling them. The high principles of this great development program to do away peacefully with social, economic, and political injustices in agriculture are in conflict with the political realities of the American continent. Only perseverance and ingenuity can make the Alliance a successful test case in the age-old problem of wresting wealth and power peacefully from the few “have's” in favor of the many “have not's,” in the interest of the common welfare.

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