Santa Marta
Since the day of Government with the Neighborhoods that took place at the ‘Micael Cotes Mejía’ Sur Sports Center in the city of Santa Marta, President Gustavo Petro He stated that the National Government will promote the Agrarian Reform and the energy transition in order to alleviate the cost of energy rates in the Colombian Caribbean.
According to the president, These measures applied in Magdalena would achieve the development of this department which has a great potential for sun and wind that should be the focus for the massification of solar panels through the policy led by the Ministry of Mines and Energy and this means “lowering electricity rates in this region.”
Regarding the Agrarian Reform, he pointed out that in Magdalena ““There is absolutely unequal land ownership.” and it is necessary “democratize the land for food production in the hands of the peasantry and indigenous communities, but also from small and medium-sized producers.”
For this reason, he emphasized that it is necessary establish an agreement between the National Government, the Government of Magdalena and the municipalities around the Agrarian Reform through “a departmental and municipal peasant committee so that through the National Land Agency a massive land purchase program can be carried out that implies that The large landowners of the region, of extensive livestock farms, of fertile lands, are seduced into selling them.”
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