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unusual facts about agrarian reform



Jeffrey Max Jones

He served as president of the Border Affairs committee and member of the Agriculture and Agrarian Reform committees.

Mendiola massacre

The Kilusang Magbubukid ng Pilipinas (Filipino, "Peasants' Movement of the Philippines"), a militant farmers' group led by Jaime Tadeo, demanded genuine agrarian reform from the Aquino government.


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Antônio de Barros Carvalho

He was the uncle of Marcos Freire, who was Senator for Pernambuco between 1975 and 1983, Chairman of the Caixa Economica Federal Federal Savings Bank and Minister of Agrarian Reform, as well as the great-uncle of Luis Freire, who was Federal Deputy for Pernambuco in 1987 to 1988 and mayor of Olinda from 1989 to 1992.

INRA

Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria, a Cuban agency formed to institute the Agrarian Reform Law of 1959

Jader Barbalho

In 2000, Barbalho was the President of the PMDB party and Senator when a wave of corruption allegations against him took national headlines, involving embezzlement of public funds at the Superintendência de Desenvolvimento da Amazônia (SUDAM - Superintendence for Amazon's Development) development agency and the Instituto Nacional de Colonização e Reforma Agrária (INCRA - National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform).

Katarismo

The agrarian reform of 1953 had enabled a group of Aymara youth to begin university studies in La Paz in the 1960s.

Philippe Bourgois

In graduate school he worked for the Agrarian Reform ministry in Nicaragua (1980) during the Sandinista revolution and was a human rights activist on Capitol Hill advocating against military aid to the government of El Salvador in 1982.

Radio Swan

Cuba responded to the broadcasts by setting up a jamming station to block the transmissions of Radio Swan and initiated La Voz de INRA, or The Voice of INRA which represented the National Institute of Agrarian Reform with an anti-American message.

Virgilio de los Reyes

Later on, the future Secretary of Agrarian Reform pursued his Bachelor of Laws at the University of the Philippines College of Law.