Land authority urges farmers to assign a portion of their lands

Ranchers at South Lake Maracaibo stay alert in the event of potential seizures

There is fear of dwindling production because of renewed seizures (File photo)

ANGIE CONTRERAS | EL UNIVERSAL

Friday July 20, 2012 11:17 AM

The alarms were raised in South Lake Maracaibo, Zulia state, west Venezuela, ahead of a potential new wave of seizures in that region. The National Lands Institute (INTI) is looking for plots of land to relocate squatters who have been staying for more than two weeks in the "rescued" Bolívar Farm, now La Bolivariana.

Ciro Labarca, the president of the Ranchers' Association of Colón Municipality (Aganaco) informed that the INTI called last Wednesday and Thursday the to the National Guard Command 27 owners of farms located in the municipalities of Sucre, Catatumbo and Colón. The purpose was to embolden them to assign to the State a portion of their property.

Labarca related that farmers are not willing to do it and requested the Executive Office to respect their rights.

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