The Colombian government gave women victims of the conflict a part of the land of the Naples Treasury, Mythical power symbol of drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, President Gustavo Petro reported Wednesday.
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The farm located in the northwest of the country passed to the Colombian State due to the extinction of dominance after the death of the Cocaine capo in 1993 during an operation of the public force. Even there had taken exotic animals such as hippos, which are now reproduced without control and are considered an invasive species.
Then, his administration was delivered to the Mayor’s Office of the municipality of Puerto Triunfo. That entity forbid it for a theme park that includes a zoo and a hotel complex where for years a plane was exhibited that allegedly used to traffic cocaine.
President Petro requested in May that he was delivered to victims of the conflict as part of an agrarian reform with which he has given thousands of hectares of land to peasants. This Wednesday his government formalized a first installment of 120 of the more than 4,000 hectares of the property.
“The Naples farm began to recover for the victims“, celebrated the president on Network X.”After the narco broom their political and economic heirs wanted to keep the hacienda“
The entrepreneurs in charge of the park within the hacienda had protested under the argument that tourism represents an important income for the region.
Analysts consider that the State is exposed to demands if it violates the lease. According to local media, the agreement between the Mayor’s Office and the park managers goes until 2087.
Felipe Harman, director of the State National Land Agency (ANT), He assured that the park barely occupies 300 hectares of the property, so the unusual areas must be delivered to the victims.
“There is an immense amount of land that we do not know clearly what its due occupation is“He said in a video.
The beneficiaries had already received the land in bailment in 2017, but according to the government they were evicted by force by the police.
“I feel very happy because today there are women who have hope, who have land for life“said Millinery Correa, one of them, in a video shared by the ANT.
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The Earth dispute is in the center of the Colombian armed conflict of more than half a century.
AFP
