The CEA filed a complaint of land invasion with the Ministry of Agriculture, but so far they have not received a response in this regard. Meanwhile, in Zulia, Falcón and Barinas the invasions intensify
The Center for Agrifood Studies (CEA) of Venezuela denounced on April 27 that about 200 illegal occupations on agricultural land have been registeredwhile warning ua “new wave” of invasions in at least three states of the country.
«In Venezuela it seems that we are facing the conjunction of criminal actors, dedicated to the extraction of wood and mineralswho use the façade of peasant movements to occupy land with an agrarian vocation”, said the president of the CEA, Edison Arciniega, quoted in a press release.
Arciniega said that the states where this situation has escalated the most is in Zulia, Falcon and Barinas.
Up to now, the illegal occupations are awarded both to the National Liberation Army (ELN) as well as other criminal organizations or personalities.
Under state “agrarian impunity”
The president of the CEA pointed out that these illegal occupations have been the product of the “agrarian impunity” by the “accumulation of administrative decisions of the National Land Institute (INTI)and of agrarian courts that are not complied with, nor executed by other State agencies».
“There are decisions favorable to the ratification of the property, without these being translated into due institutional support from the State due to the concretion of their own decisions,” he added.
The CEA filed these complaints with the Ministry of Agriculture, but until now they have no answer.
In April 2022, given the constant complaints from farmers about the invasions of their land, the Minister of the Interior, Remigio Ceballos, announced the creation of a “national rural security coordination» to address the problems of violence and insecurity that affect producers in the Venezuelan countryside.
Ceballos then spoke of weekly reviews of this security plan “shortly” to give a “resounding” change in the security of the agricultural sector.
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