Bolivia Plans Further Nationalization

Bolivia’s president, Evo Morales, has said that further nationalization of his country’s natural resources is planned. Speaking in Vienna, where he is attending the EU-Latin America/Caribbean Summit, Morales said that his government’s agrarian reform package will ensure that the state takes back “unproductive” land from private landlords and will redistribute up to 14 million hectares of land to indigenous groups and farmers. According to minister of planning, Carlos Villegas, the government will unveil details of the reform package at the end of May.