National Institute of Agrarian Reform
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The National Institute for Agrarian Reform (Spanish: Instituto Nacional de Reforma Agraria) or INRA was an agency of the Cuban Government that was formed to institute the Agrarian Reform Law
of 1959.
INRA also implemented the Second Agrarian Reform Law of 1963. It oversaw the development of the rural infrastructure.
Che Guevara
was appointed the first leader of the Institute.
Agrarian Reform Laws of Cuba
The agrarian reform laws of Cuba sought to break up large landholdings and redistribute land to those peasants who worked it, to cooperatives, and the state. Laws relating to land reform were implemented in a series of laws passed between 1959 and 1963 after the Cuban Revolution...
of 1959.
INRA also implemented the Second Agrarian Reform Law of 1963. It oversaw the development of the rural infrastructure.
Che Guevara
Che Guevara
Ernesto "Che" Guevara , commonly known as el Che or simply Che, was an Argentine Marxist revolutionary, physician, author, intellectual, guerrilla leader, diplomat and military theorist...
was appointed the first leader of the Institute.
See also
- Agriculture of CubaAgriculture of CubaAgriculture in Cuba has played an important part in the economy for several hundred years. Agriculture contributes less than 10 percent to the gross domestic product , but it employs roughly one fifth of the working population...
- Agrarian Reform Laws of CubaAgrarian Reform Laws of CubaThe agrarian reform laws of Cuba sought to break up large landholdings and redistribute land to those peasants who worked it, to cooperatives, and the state. Laws relating to land reform were implemented in a series of laws passed between 1959 and 1963 after the Cuban Revolution...