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Andean Group - August 2011 (ISSN 1741-4466)

Morales’s mixed messages over land rights

“A new land reform law which would do away once and for all with latifundia and overhaul the land reform institute [Inra]”. This pledge, delivered by President Evo Morales this month to indigenous and campesino supporters at an event in Villa Tunari, Cochabamba, along with 18,600 property titles, harks back to one of the chief demands of his support base which has only been partially addressed by the new plurinational 2009 constitution. While coming amid other signs of progress by the Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS) government vis-à-vis land reform efforts (core to its declared priority of redistributing wealth to the impoverished majority), the pledge also follows - or could even be in direct response to - other government actions which have raised major question marks over its commitment to indigenous land rights.

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