Fire in the Andes
A fight over land reform is hotting up
IN LARGE and sparsely populated Bolivia, it might be thought that land should not be a problem. But it is. Only 6.5% of the country is suitable for farming, and the best of this land has long since been taken. Half a century ago, a land reform shared out much of the highland plateau known as the Altiplano among peasant farmers, slowing the rush to the cities. But now land hunger is again causing unrest.
This article appeared in the The Americas section of the print edition under the headline “Fire in the Andes”
From the July 12th 2003 edition
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