To prevent the proliferation of small, uneconomic holdings, priority for redistributed lands was to be given to neighboring farmers with two hectares or less.

Ejidos were created in the first half of the 20th century to give Mexican peasants rights over redistributed lands, but this did not include leasing or selling.

Many were seen as potential MDC supporters, and were therefore not allocated any of the redistributed land.

The 1963 law reduced the price of redistributed land to the beneficiaries to the equivalent of one-fourth of the compensation for expropriation.

Fewer than 10,000 peasants resettled on the redistributed land, and peasant poverty remained high.

Makoni has said that he would continue land reform and would not take back any redistributed land unless it was improperly gained.

At the state and local levels, revolutionary leaders nurtured radicalism, encouraged popular mobilization, attacked the Catholic Church, built schools, and redistributed land.

He authorized free trade and redistributed land expropriated from the former workers of the mills.

The last time Mr. Ortega ran Nicaragua, he seized private assets and redistributed land to peasants.

As a result, agricultural production has declined sharply, especially on redistributed land.