Monday, February 25, 2008
More than 1 million acres of land have been recovered by the Venezuelan State in Apure alone
Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez said Sunday that more land will be taken over by the state as the country presses ahead its agricultural revolution. Speaking in his weekly broadcast Alo Presidente in the town of Romulo Gallegos, in the southern state of Apure, Chavez said that more than 1 million acres of land had been recovered by the state in Apure alone.
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What I don't understand is how INTI (Instituto Nacional de Tierras) has been allowed to drag their heels these past few years and turn so little of this oligarch-controlled land over to the socialist farmers and to government enterprise farms. There's something wrong here, and has been for a while.
ReplyDeleteClearly, the bolivarian government has been more worried about being on the good side of the capitalist big farmers, latifundistas and businessmen, than on the side of the rural masses. Why haven't heads been rolling at INTI? This ministry needs to be taken over by the new socialist councils and democratic oversight put in place.