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  • Bolivia court upholds seizure of US man's ranch

    08/03/2010 10:39:04 AM PDT · by SwinneySwitch · 21 replies · 6+ views
    Houston Chronicle/AP ^ | August 2, 2010 | CARLOS VALDEZ
    LA PAZ, Bolivia — A Bolivian court has upheld a government decision to seize a ranch from a U.S. cattleman and his family on the grounds they treated workers as virtual slaves, an official announced Monday The National Agrarian Tribunal rejected a challenge by Ronald Larsen, a 65-year-old from Montana who has owned the 58-square-mile (15,000-hectare) ranch nearly four decades, deputy land minister Juan Manuel Pinto said at a news conference. Pinto said the Caraparicito ranch would revert to Guarani Indians, traditional inhabitants of Bolivia's southeastern region, known as the Chaco. He said the ranch and an adjacent 15-square-mile (3,790-hectare)...