Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian ReformUgly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform reveals the human drama behind the radical agrarian reform that unfolded in Peru during the final three decades of the twentieth century. That process began in 1969, when the left leaning military government implemented a drastic program of land expropriation. Seized lands were turned into worker managed cooperatives. After those cooperatives began to falter and the country returned to civilian rule in the