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This was accompanied by what the MST considered to be persecution of the move- ment, with a number of its leaders jailed on various charges and it being accused of the mal-appropriation of credit provided to the land reform set- tlements.14 Moreover, in order to reduce the role of the social movements in the selection of agrarian reform beneficiaries, the government launched a new beneficiary sele [...] One of the positive outcomes of this model thus far, according to the World Bank PRR, is that land purchase prices are lower than under the traditional agrarian reform and that the program has expanded the range of land available for redistribution as well as expanding the range of potential beneficiaries and improving their welfare.23 A recent article, based on an analysis of the same documents a [...] The challenge for the Mesa government and its successors is to develop a viable strategy to address the situation of Indigenous peasants in the highlands and the conflictive mix of competing land policy demands in the east.31 In this context there has been a growth of research on land policy issues by Bolivian institutions in recent years. [...] While one should not pre-judge the conclusions of the Universidad Nacional study, the following issues may emerge as salient ones for further policy research in Colombia: • What are the outcomes of Law 160, the implications of the creation of INCODER and the performance of beneficiaries over the short and long run? [...] What distinguishes the isthmus from the rest of Latin America is perhaps the intimate connection between this range of land policies and armed conflict, especially in the twentieth century: from the 1932 Matanza directed partly against land reform organizers in El Salvador, to the mixed economy reforms adopted in Costa Rica after the 1948 Civil War, the land reforms and counter-reforms during the.