03 August 2010

BOLIVIA: Court Upholds Seizure Of Vast Ranch From U.S. Citizen.

AP/M.HERALD/      The National Agrarian Tribunal court upheld a governmental decision to seize a 58-square-mile (15,000-hectare) ranch from a U.S. cattleman Ronald Larsen, claiming he treated workers as virtual slaves. Larsen, 65, has owned the ranch nearly four decades. The Caraparicito ranch will revert to ownership by the Guarani Indians, inhabitants of southeastern Chaco region.