Relocate peasants and warn that the deal may fail

The deputy director of the National Police, Rene Maradiaga Panchame confirmed that the authorities held meetings with the owner of the National Agrarian Institute (INA), Cesar Ham and leaders of the Unified Movement of Peasants Aguan (MUCA), to determine the actions to follow in the relocation process.

“We formed committees to work and supervise a group (be placed) on the left, one on the right bank, to respect the agreements signed “last week between the MUCA and the Executive in Trujillo, Colon, said police chief was quoted by local daily El Heraldo.

However, corporate executives Dinant, owned Facusse, warned that “if the government insisted on putting farmers on farms that do not want to sell (Facusse), we will not reach any settlement.”

“The farms in the Left Bank Aguan are the only ones available to the government and the MUCA, “stated the directors of Dinant, quoted by the newspaper.

For his part, confirmed that Maradiaga knives have been seized and arrested five peasants warrant for theft and that in recent days have stepped up operations contaminated drug trafficking and illegal possession of weapons.

The INA provides for a meeting with Facusse to negotiate the location of the 3,000 hectares of land that is willing to sell.

Confrontation in the Lower Aguan caused the death of nine people, following the eviction of 4,500 hectares occupied by peasants of MUCA.

Lobo, in accord witheb1the peasant organization agreed to release 6,000 hectares of land (planted with oil palm 3000 and 3000 uncultivated). Another 5,000 will be distributed in one year (1000 and 4000 uncultivated cultivated).

Aguan Under The conflict, which began late last year by landless peasants, leaving a balance of 9 killed.

Facusse, uncle of former President Carlos Roberto Facusse, and part of the family owner of the newspaper La Tribune and several television media in the country, the government had offered the sale of 3,000 hectares in the Left Bank (Aguan) rather than the right, where they would be adjacent to other farms of the landlord.

Representatives of the landowner reported that Facusse “is surprised” that staff identified some farms to give to farmers, “he does not want are located on land adjacent to others of their property, for fear that they are encroaching in the future and generate a new conflict unnecessarily.” (Telam) jol-ab-gel23/04/2010 18:19