The Superior Agrarian Court of Guárico declared that the Santa Lucía farm is private property, informed the lawyer María Antonieta Croce who visited the editorial office of Last News.
The sentence referred to by Croce dates back to January 30, against which an appeal was filed. The Santa Lucía farm has 276 hectares and is located in the municipality of Francisco de Miranda (Calabozo), Guárico. That property is currently the subject of a trial for inheritance partition.
Croce provided such information to establish a position in relation to a note published on the portal of Last News on February 20 titled like this: “Agro-producer denounces the use of the Prosecutor’s Office to twist his arm.
On that occasion, the complainant Vito Croce Romero reported that the Public Ministry opened two criminal investigations for the alleged commission of qualified theft and plantation fire. And he said that these investigations have the purpose of “twisting his arm” in a trial for partition of an inheritance that includes the Santa Lucía farm, according to the words of Croce Romero.
In this regard, María Antonieta Croce clarified that both complaints were filed by four of the seven brothers of Croce Romero, co-heirs in the hereditary trial.
Regarding the file for the alleged crime of plantation fire, there is a report from the Caracas Fire Department where they determined that the possible causes of this event include: accidentally, sunlight, electrical storms and an open flame “applied by a active human factor… this is the one estimated by discarding the previous ones”. In this event, 741 mango bushes planted on 16 hectares were affected, which represents 57.26% of the planting, explained lawyer María Alejandra Croce.
Finally, Croce announced that the decision of the National Land Institute (Inti) regarding the public or private nature of Fundo Santa Lucía remains to be known.
