Il Ministro dell'Agricoltura e Terra del Venezuela, Juan Carlos Loyo, ha dichiarato che saranno i veri produttori del campo a dedicarsi al lavoro agricolo e di allevamento nella zona a sud del Lago di Maracaibo (stato Zulia), dove sono strati espropriati 47 latifondo che erano a disposizione di ricchi proprietari terreni, grazie anche all'appoggio di gruppi paramilitari.
Il terreno, for a total of over 20,000 acres has been expropriated as part of emergency measures to tackle the damage caused by heavy rains, which hit the country in late November, causing 35 deaths and more than 130,000 refugees.
The campesino leader of the Frente Ezequiel Zamora, Braulio Alvarez, has welcomed the decision of the Venezuelan government and noted that those opposed are large multinational corporations and enriched, a elite of the country for over 50 years of last century, has not only taken possession of the land, but have left the rural sector in miserable conditions.
also argued that that area is where it counts most of the attacks against farmers by gunmen of the old oligarchy, well counting 248 peasant leaders killed.
