📅 17 May 1959
The law limited large estates, redistributed land and created a framework for cooperatives and state farms. It struck at concentrated and foreign landownership.
📅 17 May 1959
The National Institute of Agrarian Reform became a major instrument of economic and political transformation in the countryside.
📅 17 May 1959
The law challenged the dominance of overseas corporations and connected national sovereignty with redistribution in the countryside.
📅 17 May 1959
The programme aimed to turn tenants and precarious cultivators into landholders while also organizing cooperatives on large estates.
