Reply #12: The land was almost all owned, prior to the revolution, by the large plantations,

[Judi Lynn]

most of them being owned and controlled by interests from people in other countries, like United Fruit, which became "Chiquita" in later days.

At that time, people did NOT own their own land, either. They merely worked on land, at slave labor wages, owned by strangers. Period. They had no running water, no adequate shelter, no sanitary conditions, no adquate food supplies, no medical treatement, no free education for their children. Any time they attempted to cultivate tiny pieces of land they could find to grow a few vegetables, the landowners destroyed their tiny crops as soon as they found them.

Why are you unaware of this? You would benefit by taking time to study the material.