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An unidentified farmer stands in his field of tomatoes after receiving the title to his family’s new plot of land in San Vicente department, El Salvador, July 1, 1982. He received the title as part of a national agrarian reform and land transfer program initiated in 1980. The reform, which was designed and funded by the United States, followed the model previously implemented in the Vietnam War of dividing large pieces of land into cooperatives in an effort to pacify a population considered to be sympathetic to the guerrilla insurgency. However, the model did not attempt to dismantle the landowner oligarchy nor the redistribution of coffee plantations, two critical causes of the armed conflict.