2 August – President Víctor Paz Estenssoro signs Supreme Decree N° 3464 into law, passing sweeping agrarian reform and declaring peasants the owners of their own lands.[1][2]
^"Decreto Supremo N° 3464". Gaceta Oficial del Estado Plurinacional de Bolivia (in Spanish). 2 August 1953. Archived from the original on 13 December 2021. Retrieved 12 December 2021.