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to Indigenous People
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to Indigenous People
La Paz - Bolivian President Evo Morales on
Sunday gave indigenous Guarani people title
deeds of 38,000 hectares of land that were
property of landholders from Alto Parapeti,
Santa Cruz department.
Morales said it was the beginning of the end
of the landholding in his country. Morales
also gave title deeds of 17,000 hectares of
land to the so-called Communal Lands of
Origin.
"We are beginning to apply the new Political
Constitution of the State, to finish with
the landholding, we will continue working
for you till finishing the landholding,"
Morales said.
Morales said that the decision of given the
lands it is not of his government but of the
people's mandate on the past referendum on
Jan. 25.
In that occasion, 80 percent of the
Bolivians voted in favor to finish the
landholding and decided that the landholding
cannot be bigger than 5,000 hectares.
"It is a historical days, we are beginning
to finish the landholding. The private
property will always be respected, but some
people who does not want equality must
change their minds," Morales added.
According to the National Institute of
Agrarian Reform (INRA) the 38,000 hectares
given to the Guarani people are in the
regions of Caraparicito and Alto Parapeti in
the province of Cordillera de Santa Cruz,
east of Bolivia.
The lands here were cleaned and taken by the
government because the landholders from that
region did not conduct any economic and
social activity on the land.
Morales said that the deliver of lands, the
first step, "is the result of the agrarian
revolution of the historical fight of our
ancestors who always fought for the land,
since the Spanish invasion."
"To have land is to have freedom," Morales
added and requested the landholders to
respect the law and "what the Bolivian
people have decided."
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