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LA PAZ, Bolivia — The government has seized a 48-square-mile ranch in Bolivia’s eastern lowlands from a soybean magnate who is among the chief political rivals of recently re-elected President Evo Morales.
The confiscation announced Thursday was the first by Morales’ government as it seeks to wrest fallow farmland from big landholders and “restore” it to members of the country’s long- suppressed Indian majority.
The Yasminka ranch taken from Branko Markinovic will be given to the Guarayo Indians, the deputy land minister said.
