Colombia: Communicasul covers the “Pact for Earth and Life” in defense of land reform

Two and a half years after covering the historic election of Gustavo Petro, the Communicasul Collaborative Communication Agency returns to Colombia to analyze the difficulties, but also the government’s advances in land reform, sensitive theme throughout Latin America, against rural oligarchies of colonial origin.

Between the 14th (Friday) and February 25 (Tuesday), Communicasul will follow a series of meetings with political and popular movements in the country, bringing Brazilians closer to a reality constantly denied or hidden by the mainstream media .

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Among these events, the 21st and 22nd, in the city of Chicoral, Collima, where peasant, indigenous and African descent leaders, along with all agrarian reform committees and 20 agricultural sector associations, will discuss the “Pact for Land and for life ”with the Ministries of Agriculture, Culture and the Environment.

The objective of the pact clarified Héctor Mondragón, a historic struggling human rights and current advisor to the Colombian Ministry of Agriculture, is to accelerate the land reform project, led by President Gustavo Petro, “boycotted by the large landowners and by sectors that are profitable with Narcotrafficking and illegal mining ”, making 2025 the year of family, peasant, ethnic and community farming.

“Now, in the negotiations with the Colombian Revolutionary Armed Forces (FARC), an agreement was signed that would be granted to the peasants three million hectares of cultivable lands,” said Luis Fernando Sanmiguel, Reverend of Bogota’s Hope Community Church. “Among the governments of Presidents Juan Manuel Santos (2010-2018), who signed peace with the FARC, and that of Iván Duque (2018-2022), added, were delivered approximately 30 thousand hectares of land, while throughout the government Petro are already over one million hectares, ”he said. “The truth is that an opposition formed by very rich people, full of military, economic and political power, sabotifies in Congress the innovative measures of the Government of Change (Gobierno del Exchange),” said the religious leader.

In emphasizing the need for public opinion to be informed, Sanmiguel evaluates the participation of Communicasul as fundamental, because “while supplying social networks, it enhances the breaking of the mainstream media monopoly”. According to Reverend, the Colombian government makes it clear: “We need to end illegal mining exploitation and drug trafficking.” “This point is crucial, but has been boycotted by armed groups, who sabotage the signing of a specific agreement, paying attention to life to take advantage of their own,” he added.

For jurist Pietro Alarcón, international representative of the Patriotic Union (UP), a member of the Historical Pact Coalition – integrated by organizations such as the Communist Party, the Human Colombia, the Democratic Polo, of forces that turned off from traditional segments, such as the Liberal Party , and committed to ending the civil war – “since 2016, when the peace agreement has signed, there is a new stage of life in the country, where the word, dialogue and politics overlap with weapons.”

With the support of the Brazilian trade union movement and dozens of collaborators, Comunicasul covered the first and second shifts of the 2022 presidential elections, bringing firsthand the victory of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez against Rodolfo Hernández, representative of the oligarchy and states United.

Now we ask again for the collaboration of all who advocate the independent media for more this middle coverage, in which we will seek government assessment for social movements.

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