Reforma agraria y cooperativismo en Chile: el plan Pisquero (1964-1970)

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The Pisquero Plan is examined through which the State promoted the strengthening of the typical heritage distillate of Chile in an articulated manner with the strengthening of the cooperative culture and the Agrarian Reform. The study is carried out through original unpublished sources, mainly the minutes of the Control cooperative, together with press of the time, interviews with relevant actors and parliamentary debates. It is detected that the project achieved its objectives, since pisco production achieved a considerable leap when moving from the artisanal to the industrial era, which allowed the regional economy to be strengthened and advance in the process of import substitution. At the same time, the pisco cooperatives were strengthened, whose solidity allowed them to remain relevant actors in the following half century. Likewise, the Pisquero Plan was adequately articulated with the peasant beneficiaries of the Agrarian Reform, who found in the cooperatives an adequate space to integrate into the value chains through the pisco ecosystem.