He delivered 180 thousand hectares expropriated by Hugo Chávez to the landless movement of Brazil

The award of this important area of ​​land occurred within the framework of the agro -productive project “Patria Grande del Sur”, aimed at strengthening agroecological production and food sovereignty in the region, according to the leader of the Venezuelan regime.

And, along the same line, he added: “We seek to produce organic foods On a large scale for our people, for northern Brazil and to export to the world. ”

The plan in the “La Vergereña” farm, which was statuted in 2008 as a result of a series of expropriations that, according to private estimates, reached some nine million hectares In the country, it contemplates the cultivation of caraotas, corn, cassava, banana, yam, sorghum, vegetables and fruits, in addition to the breeding of laying hens, pigs and beef.

“I believe in the union of the villages, so I have asked the landless movement of Brazil to receive these 180 thousand hectares of the best lands in Venezuela to direct a South American project,” Maduro said in the national chain regarding the property, located in the Bolívar state (south) and productive at the time of its expropriation, which is bigger than Margarita Islandone of the main tourist destinations of the Caribbean country.

“(They are) good lands to produce, it is one of the most important bailouts that were at the time and we have already advanced tremendously to activate all productive plans,” added the president, referring to the expropriations that the Government called “Rescue”.

For his part, Roxana Fernández, Del MST, indicated that they seek to reinforce “Food sovereignty“In Venezuela, which in the toughest years of recession lived a sharp food shortage, something that experts attributed to the fierce state controls, today flexible, in addition to the expropriations.

“It is an act of reaffirmation of MST commitment to the Venezuelan people to do in these lands of the former Vergareña a model and an example for the world,” said Fernández.

The MST -originally movement of Rural workers without land- was founded in 1984 as a social and political organization composed of peasants and their families in search of land for the poor in Brazil, becoming a very controversial movement.