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Land reform is making progress, however slowly. Some 55,000 families have been given 3,900,000 acres in Venezuela. In Chile, where about 70% of all productive land is held by 5% of the landowners, an agrarian reform law has been enacted, is gradually being enforced. Bolivia has distributed some 6,500.000 acres to 58,000 families. Even Paraguay's Dictator General Alfredo Stroessner has granted land titles to more than 10,000 squatters...
David E. Spencer '63 will leave next week for a three-week conference to be held at Potosi, Bolivia. The campaign is sponsored by the National Student Association, the Bolivian National Union of Students, UNESCO, and the International Student Conference...
...clear up the confusion. Between 1,000 and 1,500 Latin Americans last year traveled to Cuba for sabotage and guerrilla training, and many more have gone in the first two months of this year, said McCone. The largest contingents, he reported, came from Venezuela, Peru, Ecuador. Argentina and Bolivia. "One group of trainees was asked to mark bridges and other similar demolition targets on detailed maps of their country...
...Washington, Food for Peace officials have coined a name for the project-Alianza para los Niños, meaning Alliance for Children. The food is credited with helping to double Peru's rural school attendance since the program began; school absenteeism in Bolivia has dropped from 38% to 2%, and students now make sure to be on time since latecomers go to the end of the lunch line. Each day in Mexico, more than 1,000,000 schoolchildren receive the donated food. "The lunch is the only reason a lot of parents send their children to school," says Djalma...