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Show 118 and from the well-known land redistribution experiment in the Comarca Lagunera, Mexico, where in the epoch of president Lazaro Cardenas land was distributed to 300 communities. Informacion y Documentacion. Bennet, Robert L. "Mejores oportunidades economicas para los indios norteamericanos," America Indigena, XXVII No. 2, (April, 1967), pp. 338-348. Article written in Spanish. Informacion. Beals, Ralph L. "Un sistema tradicional de mercado," America Indigena, XXVII No. 3 (July, 1967), pp. 566-580. Article written in Spanish. Schaedel, Richard P. "Estudios sobre reforma agraria," America Indigena, XXVLI No. 3 (July, 1967), pp. 495-557. English Summary: Land reform is one of the "hot" issues in Latin America which has to be kept up to date. The swift, drastic changes of agrarian policy in Iron Curtain countries are well known, but the brief histories of land reform in Venezuela and Cuba show sharp changes even in a matter of months an ignorance of which will profoundly alter an analysis. This points up the need for prompt and objective reporting (and author uses the term advisedly) on land reform. In the several international and national newsletters which exist, no single one appears to have primary responsibility. A coordination of agencies for diffusion of reporting information would be most helpful to scholars and administrators alike. Emphasis could be placed on collecting the country by country case studies the documentation of many of which are controlled by action agencies. If responsible officials could be persuaded to adopt the frank, self-critical attitude of Venezuela officialdom in dealing with their own experiences, it is probable many more case studies would become available. Cliques tend to grow up around one or another group of social scientists working in this field. There is need for greater interchange of preliminary reports (most of which are never published) between government (national and international) agencies and with the academic community. The numerous seminars and colloquia tend to invite or exclude the same individuals. It would be well to insure representation from the public sector in academic symposia and vice versa. One can hardly expect traditional bureaucratic rivalries to disappear overnight, but he cannot forego the imperative necessity to deplore the situation in a subject which is so much the province of the action-oriented agencies. In line with the previous statement, the point should be made that less polemicism in land reform and more well-presented documentation for a given line of action is needed. Even a decade ago |