Chavez Highlights Venezuela’s Land Reform with Broadcast from Seized Farm

Caracas, Venezuela, September 26, 2005—Venezuela’s President Chavez broadcast his weekly television program, Aló Presidente, from a large landed estate, La Marqueseña, yesterday, which the government’s Land Institute, has recently declared to be state property. According to Chavez, the Azupurua family, which claims title to the land, has held the land illegally for decades and must turn it over to the state, which will use it for the government’s land reform program.