On May 17, 1959, Fidel signed the first Agrarian Reform Law in the command of La Plata. Legislation that marked the political, economic and social path of the (Cuban) Revolution. A fact that would close one of the sad pages of our history.
The country put an end to large estates and responded to the farmers’ demand to be owners of their own land.
Cuban farmers improved their lives
The Agrarian Reform Law would bring to our countryside a transformation of life for men and women who tilled the land.
Two years later, on the same date and in homage to Sabino Pupo and Niceto Pérez, representative figures of the peasant struggles, the National Association of Small Farmers was founded by Commander in Chief Fidel Castro.
