latifundism

Cuba; how far from the minds of those who killed Niceto Perez -- thinking that latifundism would prevail eternally -- was the thought that 20 years later the victorious peasant-worker army and revolution would proclaim the agrarian reform on this spot?

15TH ANNIVERSARY-SIGNING OF AGARIAN REFORM LAW 1974

Today those smokestacks and those machines and those lands covered with cane, those seas of cane, are no longer the symbol of latifundism, of dead time, of unemployment, of iniquitous exploitation.

SUGAR WORKERS CONGRESS 1963

Therefore, the national general assembly of the Cuban People condemns latifundism -- a source of misery for the farmer and a backward and inhuman agricultural system.

MASS MEETING IN PLAZA CIVICA 1960

We condemn latifundism, inadequate wages, racial discrimination, military oligarchies.

SPEECH TO THE GENERAL CUBAN PEOPLE 1960

It said that Cuba was still young as a republic, and so forth, and that, "as a small nation, subject to the economic orientation of the big powers" -- read that as imperialism, said in a very delicate manner so as not to anger the Yankees -- "Our beloved fatherland continues to suffer intensely from the evils of absentee latifundism, in which wealth is produced in the rural areas but is enjoyed in Havana.

TEXT OF CASTRO HAVANA UNIVERSITY SPEECH 1968