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Agrarian Reform Law

Cuba · Government / Communist Party Government. Chronological records rendered directly from the World History Database.

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Chronological records

1959

Fidel Alejandro Castro17 May 1959

Government / Communist Party Government

Castro signs the First Agrarian Reform Law, which expropriates over 1,000 acres of farmlands & forbids foreign land ownership

Names involved

Fidel Alejandro Castro

Provenance

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