... 1959, 1963), land was distributed to more than 200,000 peasant families, and 70% of the Latifundio lands (large estates) passed into state control. The new government now responsible for all aspects of its citizens' lives, and eager to show its incontestable superiority, followed the trends of the time. Extensive development took place, with much aid from other communist countries, and mass imports ... irrigation equipment), large scale deforestation, salinization, erosion, compaction, fertility loss of soil, heavy rural-urban migration (56% in 1956, 28% in 1989). This should not come as ...

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