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Cuba · Economy / Agrarian Reform. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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1959

Fidel Alejandro Castro17 May 1959

Havana · Economy / Agrarian Reform

Signs the First Agrarian Reform Law limiting large estates and expropriating land

Names involved

Fidel Alejandro Castro

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