“If there is an agrarian reform, will the jungle be saved? The moors? The ecosystems? The answer is yes.“, is the phrase with which the President Gustavo Petro defended this government initiative through his social networks.
It should be remembered that recently, the Constitutional court knocked down a key article of the National Development Plan concerning the means for purchasing land, something that the head of state He did not even overlook this in his speech at the installation of the new legislature on July 20.
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“The democratization of agricultural land has, as a consequence, rebalanced us with nature“, the president added, in a post on the social network X, adding that “Being against agrarian reform is going directly against the balance of life, including animal life.“.
If there is an agrarian reform, will the jungle be saved? The moors? The ecosystems? The answer is yes.
The democratization of agricultural land has the consequence of rebalancing us with nature.
Being against agrarian reform is going directly against the balance of the…
— Gustavo Petro (@petrogustavo) July 24, 2024
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The president emphasized that the absence of this reform left “Hundreds of thousands dead in Colombia“, explaining the escalation of violence in the country.
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“I hope that the political class of Cordoba is today in favor of agrarian reform. Being against that objective that the United States, Europe, China, Russia, Japan, Korea, Mexico achieved, led to one of the worst massacres of people and nature in the history of the country. Cordoba was one of the worst examples.“, he added.
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