Gerardo Vega Medina was appointed director of the National Land Agency by the Minister of Agriculture and Rural Development, Cecilia Lopez, who claimed that “his experience and commitment to peace will be decisive in the fulfillment of the entity’s goals”.
(See: The response of peasants to the request to evict occupied farms).
Vega Medina is a lawyer, with a master’s degree in Political Communication from Eafit University. For 11 years he served as director of the Forging Futures Foundation, non-governmental organization with more than 20 years of experience in judicial representation to peasants dispossessed of their lands, and that was recognized in 2012 with the National Peace Prize and in 2015 with the Human Rights Prize.
(See: Agricultural inputs rose 32.6% between January and June).
Since 1990, Vega Medina has been linked to the peace processes that have been developed in Colombia and in the search for peace as an advisor on rural reform, access to and distribution of land, and also on the restitution of victims who have been dispossessed of their property.
Colombian peasant.
Likewise, it contributed, from the legal defense, with the land claim processes at the national level from the National Commission for Reparation and Reconciliation that would later be incorporated into the Victims and Land Restitution Law – Law 1448 of 2011.
(See: 11.1% of peasants in Colombia are unemployed).
In addition to his work as a social and political leader, He has served as presidential adviser for the Urabá Region, Colombian consul before the Kingdom of Belgium and Luxembourg, deputy of the Departmental Assembly of Antioquia, and Secretary of Government of the municipality of Apartadó.
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