Uribe’s family accumulated peasant lands,used government funds to develop them:Colombia congressman
Uribe’s family accumulated peasant lands, used government funds to develop them: Colombia congressman
posted by Steven Cohen
Oct 3, 2013
During his time as president, Alvaro Uribe used his political influence to steer government funds to properties acquired illegally by his family, according to a vocal Uribe opponent in the Colombian congress.
Representative Ivan Cepeda took to the media Wednesday, accusing Uribe of directing a public irrigation initiative to a municipality in which his family’s landholdings company, Agropecuaria El Uberrimo S.A.S. had purchased territories designated for small-scale agricultural production.
Between 1993 and 2003, claims Cepeda, the Uribe-Moreno family purchased four government properties set aside for poor, landless farmers. According to Cepeda, the purchases not only violated the spirit of the statute — designed to open land access to historically excluded rural farmers — but also exceeded the maximum Family Agricultural Unit designated by the law.
Then in 2008, Uribe reportedly manipulated an initiative to improve irrigation systems in 11 rural “adaptation districts” to benefit his family’s holdings.
More:
http://colombiareports.co/uribe-family-accumulated-peasant-lands-used-government-funds-develop-colombian-congressman/
