Maduro delivers 180,000 hectares of land to the MST in Venezuela
Venezuela President Nicolás Maduro delivered more than 180,000 hectares of expropriated land on Thursday (13) in the southern state of Bolívar to the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) of Brazil. The measure was announced by Maduro, who stated that he would sign a legal document, with decree effect, to formalize the delivery of these lands to the movement.
“I will sign a legal document, as a decree, to deliver these 180,000 hectares to the Landless Movement of Brazil, to coordinate this project,” said Maduro, referring to the agroecological production initiative called “Homeland Grande do Sul”.
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The objective of the project is that land will be used for food production that will meet the population of Venezuela, northern Brazil, and will also be exported to other countries. The proposal provides for an alliance between peasants, indigenous and military to coordinate the activities.
Among the products that the project intends to produce are banana, cassava, fruits, sugar cane, pumpkin, chicken, pork and bovine, milk and derivatives, beans, vegetables and corn. In addition, the Chavista regime plans to create a traditional seed bank, a nursery for reforestation in the southern region of Venezuela and a training school.
The land delivered to the MST were expropriated during the government of Hugo Chavez in the 2000s. Maduro stated that the project will be a “cooperative, human project, directed by alternative peasant movements around the world”.
The land concession to the MST was formalized in September last year, when João Pedro Stedile, the movement’s leader, met Maduro at the Miraflores Palace in the Venezuelan capital.
At the time, Maduro stated that the lands of ‘La Vergareña’, the name of the place, would be the “epicenter” of a productive project that would allow the MST to install its work model in Venezuela.
