Day 242 - 29 Apr 96 - Page 10

     
     1        not suffered a series of guerilla wars and military coup
     2        d'etat that neighbouring states have and, secondly, they
     3        have had a much fairer land distribution system; not so
     4        much as societies of landlords and peasants of a neo feudal
     5        type which is characteristic of countries like Guatemala or
     6        El Salvador and which led to guerilla wars, in fact, in
     7        those countries.
     8
     9        My point is that these figures and my own research indicate
    10        that while the so-called theory of Costa Rican
    11        exceptionalism is valued in the political sphere, Costa
    12        Rica is far more democratic than its neighbours.  It is
    13        much less valid in the field of land distribution and that,
    14        in fact, the figures , about which there is a reasonable
    15        consensus for the 1960s and 1970s, are that approximately
    16        five to six per cent of farm units occupy approximately
    17        almost two-thirds of all farmland, so it is a high degree
    18        of skewness equivalent to the land distribution skewness
    19        that you will find in Latin American countries of a much
    20        less democratic character.  I think land distribution has
         its own logic which escapes the control of democratic
    22        politicians.
    23
    24   Q.   Yes.  I do not wish to refer to any more in that document.
    25        I want to look at the documents behind Mr. Cesca -- the
    26        Cesca briefcase documents, if you like.  I do not know
    27        whether it is a final one. I believe it is behind Mr.
    28        Cesca's statement.
    29        A.  Do I have that?
    30
    31   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Just pause a moment and we will provide you
    32        with one.  Which documents are you referring to?
    33
    34   MR. MORRIS:  It is, I think, the first document.  I have one
    35        with Mr. Rampton's handwriting on the front, but there are
    36        a series of documents.
    37
    38   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Show me which kind of document it is.
    39
    40   MR. MORRIS:  It is the one, if you remember, which has the map.
    41
    42   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  Is it behind Mr. Rampton's letter of
    43        28th February?
    44
    45   MR. MORRIS:  Yes,, it is.  It is that one.
    46
    47   MR. JUSTICE BELL:  In case it is there, do you mind just putting
    48        that on the side table, Dr. Carriere, that bundle, and a
    49        yellow XI, please, which is in the middle of the stack.  In
    50        divider 1, there is Mr. Cesca's statement and I have put 
    51        the documents there.  Can you turn to the end of 
    52        Mr. Cesca's statement? 
    53        A.  I am at the end.
    54
    55   Q.   What do you find there? Turn over again.
    56        A.  I find a table of which the first line is, "(a)  Costa
    57        Rica has 12 live zones".
    58
    59   MR. MORRIS:  That must be part of those documents.
    60