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Weekly Report - 19 March 2009 (ISSN 1741-7422)

BOLIVIA: Morales begins land reform

Declaring a “beginning to the end of the large landholdings of Bolivia" President Evo Morales this week handed over thousands of hectares of land to the indigenous Guaraní community, in line with the new constitution. However, his assurances that “private property would always be respected" rang hollow in the context of an attack on the home of an indigenous government opponent, Víctor Hugo Cárdenas. The act of political violence has turned Cárdenas, an ex vice-president under the now-exiled rightwing Gonzalo Sánchez de Lozada, into a rallying point for the opposition.

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