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Problems of Land Tenure Reform in Latin America*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

Rafael Picó
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My interest in land reform started very early. In fact, my first executive appointment in the Government of Puerto Rico was in 1941, even before I left academic life, when I became a member of the first Board of Directors of the Land Authority of Puerto Rico, thus participating from the start in the land reform program of Puerto Rico. Back in 1940 when the present Government of Puerto Rico headed by Luis Muñoz Marín, our present Governor but at that time President of the Senate, took over the reins of government one of the first bills approved by our legislature was for a land tenure reform program in Puerto Rico.

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Research Article
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Journal of Inter-American Studies , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , April 1964 , pp. 143 - 156
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Copyright © University of Miami 1964

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*

Lecture delivered at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, March 13, 1963. (Revised as of February, 1964.)

References

1 Declaration to the Peoples of America, in Alliance for Progress (Washington, D. C: Pan American Union, 1961), p. 11.

2 Latin America (New York: Odyssey Press (first edition), 1942), pp. 833-35.

3 Ferragut, , “La reforma agraria boliviana,” Cuba Libre [Coral Gables, Florida], Vol. I, No. 8 [July, 1962]. [Author's translation.]Google Scholar

4 Under the new president, architect and planner Fernando Belaúnde, who came into office July, 1963, there are high expectations that real accomplishments will be made on land redistribution on behalf of the Peruvian Indian population, since that is one of the basic reforms advocated by his government.

5 de Chile, Obispos, El deber social y político en la hora presente (Santiago de Chile: Secretaría General del Obispado de Chile, 1962), pp. 9, 10, 35.Google Scholar [Author's translation.]

6 Bird, , The Sugar Industry in Relation to the Social and Economic System of Puerto Rico. San Juan, P. R., January 23, 1937.Google Scholar (Part 4 prepared by Rafael Picó). (San Juan, P. R.: Bureau of Supplies, Printing and Transportation, 1941.) (Senate of Puerto Rico, 15th Legislative Assembly, first legislature, 1941. Senate Document No. 1.)

7 President Bosch was ousted by a military coup in September, 1963.