LEFTIST Bolivian President Evo Morales has launched a sweeping land reform plan by handing over about 20,000 square kilometres of state-owned land to poor Indians.

Thousands of Indians gathered in the eastern city of Santa Cruz to receive land titles.
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Bolivia landowners vow self-defense as talks fail
LA PAZ, Bolivia (Reuters) – Angry Bolivian landowners vowed to form land-defense groups as talks with the leftist government broke down over plans to redistribute a fifth of the impoverished South American country’s land.

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