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 ASUBI, Bolivia (AP) - Victor Valverde has farmed other people's land since he was 8. Now 49, he dreams of having just enough of his own to feed his family.
Valverde might get it under an ambitious effort proposed by President Evo Morales, who says he will make good on more than 50 years of land reform promises by successive Bolivian leaders.
By month's end, his government hopes to start redistributing as much as 54,000 square miles of unfarmed land to the poor. The plots, many of them unused state land and most in the fertile eastern lowlands, add up to about 10 percent of this nation that is the size of New York state.
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