The Asociacion de Cooperativas Agricolas del Litoral (ACAL), constituted in 1970, coordinates activities of 80 local farmer organizations to strengthen them in their struggle for such aims as: (1) expropriation of large land holdings; (2) distribution of land to campesinos; (3) the right of local organizations to incorporate themselves; (4) registry of campesino landholdings; (5) obtaining credit and other state services for its member organizations; and (6) training and publications, covering among other matters, legal questions.