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A 1960 law to accomplish this action was advanced by Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, who hoped that it would discourage the migratory "conuqueros." The Argentinian leader Bernardino Rivadavia was called the "patron saint" of this action, and promulgated a law based on the Roman concept of emphyteusis. The Castro government in 1959 passed a law which performed this action, giving every peasant family two caballerias and stripping the (*) United Fruit Company of its properties. Generally tageted at latifundia and haciendas, for 10 points, identify this type of action carried out in many Latin American nations, which sought a more equitable distribution of a certain immovable resource.
A 1960 law to accomplish this action was advanced by Venezuela's Romulo Betancourt, who hoped that it would discourage the migratory "conuqueros.
agrarian reform [or land reform; accept pretty much anything which suggests that land ownership is being addressed]