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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Agrarian Reform in Colombia Problems of Social Reform
Beteiligte:
Duff, Ernest A.
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 1966
Erschienen in:Journal of Inter-American Studies
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2307/165215
ISSN:
0885-3118;
2326-4047
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Beschreibung:
<jats:p>Colombia's current attempt at agrarian reform began in December 1961 with the passage of Law 135, “On Social Agrarian Reform.” The Law has as its central objective a change in land tenure relationships in the densely populated western (or Andean) section of Colombia, where latifundia and minifundia often exist side by side. The Law established the Colombian Agrarian Reform Institute <jats:italic>(Instituto Colombiano de la Reforma Agraria</jats:italic> or INCORA) as a semiautonomous governmental agency to direct the process of reform. In recent months, however, the pace of the reform, which began ten projects during the first six months of 1962, has been slowed considerably due to a multitude of problems, among which the most serious are unswerving opposition to the program by both the large landowners and their allies on the right, the <jats:italic>Movimiento Revolutcionario Liberal</jats:italic> (MRL and its allies on the left, and inadequate financing.</jats:p>