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The Civic Committee of San José de Chiquitos denounced through a video on its Facebook account the eviction of at least 130 Mennonite families from the town of Valle Verde, by 400 police officers.
The deputy of Cree María René Álvarez denounced on her Twitter account that the purpose of this measure is to hand over the land to the intercultural.
“Mennonite communities revert lands, to hand them over to intercultural people who are part of the #ArmedMilicias
And for this they send contingents of police,” he wrote on Twitter along with a video about the operation.
The civic protested the operation and highlighted the contribution of the Mennonites to the region.
“More than 400 police officers who have come to evict these Mennonite families who have lived on these lands for 10 years, who work with our communities, have just left. It cannot be that people who have worked with us for years, who have obtained their land with sacrifice, are being abused in this way,” said the president of the Civic Committee of San José de Chiquitos.
He attributed these “outrages” to the National Institute for Agrarian Reform (INRA). The Valle Verde community is made up of more than a hundred families born in Bolivia, but of Mennonite descent.
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“They have finished the territory, all the lands have been finished. Now, as the fiscal lands have been finished, now they have begun to subjugate those that have an owner, ”he said.
On the other hand, they denounced the seizure of 1,400 hectares of land belonging to the Valle Verde community belonging to more than a hundred Bolivian families of Mennonite descent.
Lawyer and activist Freddy Gamboa published the video of the operation on social networks and denounced the “eviction”.
“There are pretensions of the intercultural to evict to take over these lands that have been under construction for more than 10 years, with machinery, crops,” he said.
