{"content":[{"text":"migration of a legion of workers who, driven by hunger, move \n around to the rhythm of successive harvests.” (Open Veins of \n Latin America, by Eduardo Galeano, p. 60, par. 2-3)","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.09088,"width":0.617452,"height":0.05339099999999998}},{"text":"Late 1960s In Brazil, The Empty Promise Of Land \n Reform","bbox":{"left":0.272157,"top":0.161939,"width":0.543704,"height":0.041408}},{"text":"“The Northeasterner’s slave labor is now constructing the great \n trans-Amazonia highway that will cut Brazil in two, penetrating \n up to the Bolivian border. The “march to the west,” as the plan is \n called, also involves the agricultural colonization project to extend \n “the frontiers of civilization”; each peasant will get ten hectares of \n land if he survives the tropical forests. The Northeast [of Brazil] \n contains 6 million landless peasants while 15,000 people own \n half of all the land. Agrarian reform is not carried out in the \n already occupied areas, where the latifundistas’ property rights \n remain sacred, but in the jungle [where this ten hectare land- \n reform is being offered]. Thus a road for the latifundio’s \n expansion into new territory is being opened up by its victims, the \n flagelado, or “tormented ones,” of the Northeast. [This is a \n reference to the construction by these destitute workers of the \n Trans-Amazonia Highway.] Without capital or implements, what \n is the use of ten hectares one to two thousand miles from \n consumer centers? One must conclude that the government’s real \n aims are quite different: to provide labor for the U.S. \n latifundistas who have bought or appropriated half the lands \n north of the Rio Negro, and also for U.S. Steel, which received \n Amazonia’s rich iron and manganese deposits from General \n Garrastazu Medici.” (Open Veins of Latin America, p. 91, par. 1, \n emphasis mine) So much for genuine land-reform.","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.221335,"width":0.618037,"height":0.408997}},{"text":"Early 1970s, Salvador Allende Attempts To Bring Real \n Land-Reform To Chile---What Happened?","bbox":{"left":0.246471,"top":0.648,"width":0.5949720000000001,"height":0.04156699999999991}},{"text":"In the early 1970s, right after the publishing of Galeano’s Open \n Veins of Latin America, Salvador Allende attempted to bring \n equitable land-reform into Chile. What happened? If you’re \n into historically accurate movies, order off amazon.com the \n movie “Missing” starring Jack Lemon and Sissy Spacek. Also \n read this quote from Salvador Allende’s widow, Isabel Allende: \n “If I had been able to read between the lines, I could have \n concluded that Salvador Allende’s government was doomed from \n the beginning. It was the time of the Cold War, and the United \n States would not allow a leftist experiment to succeed in what \n Henry Kissinger called “its backyard.” The Cuban Revolution","bbox":{"left":0.235294,"top":0.707396,"width":0.6178440000000001,"height":0.19566300000000003}}],"images_bbox":[],"images_bbox_not_text_overlap":[]}