[news] Bolivia Passes Major Land Reform

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[![Morales with Martin Condori: The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, shakes hands with Martin Condori, one of the peasants' leaders, after signing the land reform bill. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/AP][1]][2]**Morales with Martin Condori: **The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, shakes hands with Martin Condori, one of the peasants' leaders, after signing the land reform bill. Photograph: Aizar Raldes/APThe Guardian  
Rory Carroll, Latin America correspondent  
Wednesday November 29, 2006

The Bolivian president, Evo Morales, has secured a sweeping land reform bill with the help of thousands of indigenous peasants who marched on the capital, La Paz.

The law is intended to reverse centuries of discrimination against the indigenous majority by seizing 77,000 square miles of land - an area around three-quarters the size of Britain - deemed unproductive or illegally owned and redistributing it to the poor.

  


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