Colonización Consejo Agrario Nacional [1930s-1940s]

Description: In the 1930s, a law created the Consejo Agraria Nacional that intervened in the distribution of public lands with the provinces and in programs of Colonización. This institution ceased to operate and, eventually, exist with the interventions of the successive military coups. The Minister of Economy during the last military dictatorship, José Alfredo Martínez de Hoz transferred rural properties as well as the authority to distribute state land to the provinces that were military intervened. Until to-day and in contrast to other Latin American countries such as Brazil, Bolivia, Uruguay, and Paraguay, and in the same situation as Chile, Argentina lacks an institutionalization of land distribution. Extent and format of original material: Typewritten and signed documents, bulletins on agriculture and stock-breeding, and a smallbook titled "De arrendatario a propietario" (or "From tenant to owner,"), plus magazines' and newspapers' articles, and a small book of a draft bill.