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Agrarian Reform

Venezuela’s Marching Campesinos Meet Maduro, Denounce Corruption & Revolutionary ‘Reversals’

August 7, 2018 By Paul Dobson, Venezuelanalysis.com , , ,
After 20 days walking 435 kilometres, the marchers held a fiery televised meeting with the president, finally being able to present their proposals to the nation. Merida, August 2, 2018 (venezuelanalysis.com) – Venezuela’s campesino marchers achieved their immediate objective Thursday, holding a public meeting with President Nicolas Maduro in Caracas, where they presented proposals for far-reaching reforms to state agrarian policies and institutions. Scenes of tears and cries of joy dominated the live televised meeting held in Miraflores presidential palace, in which the multitude of small farmers, who had marched 435 kilometres from Guanare, Portuguesa state, were given the opportunity to address the nation and draw the president’s attention to a series of popular grievances, including land evictions, corruption in state bureaucracy, and paramilitary violence.

Brazilian Activists Occupy Gov’t Building To Protest Austerity

August 5, 2015 EFE, www.latino.foxnews.com , , ,
By EFE in Fox News Latino - Some 1,000 members of Brazil's MST Landless Movement on Monday occupied the finance ministry to protest the austerity policies of President Dilma Rousseff. The MST activists arrived during the early morning, occupied the first floor of the building and blocked access to ministry officials, police said. In a communique, the MST said that the protest was called to protest the combination of spending cuts and tax hikes that the Rousseff government decided to implement to shore up public finances and straighten out the economy, expected to shrink at least 1.5 percent this year. Alexandre Conceição, a member of the national MST coordinating body, told reporters that the cuts in public spending announced by the government has reduced by almost 50 percent the funds available this year for agrarian reform.

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