06-12-2009, 03:04 AM
Ho, and about the "landowners"......
I see you are posting news that go to the times of Zvonko Matkovic. He has been authority a long time ago.
Actual reality is that most landowners has selled their land and the ones that remains are keeping 5000 Has. the most. But the fight was mostly not about land, but the physical situation of the land.
Let me explain: about just 50 years ago, Santa Cruz region was a territory in the middle of nothing, with no roads, no electricity, no services and no way to produce and carry goods to internal or external markets. So, landowners built roads and make most infraestructure to produce and export, with little or no participation of government in the big effort. It was a great success.
There is land for "colla" inmigrants (in fact, most of the land of Santa Cruz is gived to colla migrants (paynig political favours), but not the indigenous cambas, and that's the Camba Nation claims. The local indigenous where displaced from their land by colla indigenous. But colla indigenous want to take the land with services of roads and electricity, so they assault old oppositors farmers that make those services mostly by own effort.
The truth is that government is promoting those assaults, as a way to weaken resistance to them by local farmers, by taking away their economic support, placing "their" obedient farmers. Government do not give land to the "colla" farmers, but to UNIONs of colla farmers, under government control. So, if a colla farmer don't agree to obey government, he might be expelled from the community (UNION) because he is not the owner, but the union. He doesent have private property, so he have to obey OR ELSE.
As another step to archieve this goal (weaken resistance of local farmers), government has forbid the export of goods produced or quota them only by authorisation of government (authorisations that are frequently delayed by "burocracy"), weaken even more oppositor farmers. They even have great difficultyes to have loans from banks... Many of them has selled their land very cheap.
This problem is very complex and can take a lot of space in the forum. But maybe with this you can understand it a little more.
I see you are posting news that go to the times of Zvonko Matkovic. He has been authority a long time ago.
Actual reality is that most landowners has selled their land and the ones that remains are keeping 5000 Has. the most. But the fight was mostly not about land, but the physical situation of the land.
Let me explain: about just 50 years ago, Santa Cruz region was a territory in the middle of nothing, with no roads, no electricity, no services and no way to produce and carry goods to internal or external markets. So, landowners built roads and make most infraestructure to produce and export, with little or no participation of government in the big effort. It was a great success.
There is land for "colla" inmigrants (in fact, most of the land of Santa Cruz is gived to colla migrants (paynig political favours), but not the indigenous cambas, and that's the Camba Nation claims. The local indigenous where displaced from their land by colla indigenous. But colla indigenous want to take the land with services of roads and electricity, so they assault old oppositors farmers that make those services mostly by own effort.
The truth is that government is promoting those assaults, as a way to weaken resistance to them by local farmers, by taking away their economic support, placing "their" obedient farmers. Government do not give land to the "colla" farmers, but to UNIONs of colla farmers, under government control. So, if a colla farmer don't agree to obey government, he might be expelled from the community (UNION) because he is not the owner, but the union. He doesent have private property, so he have to obey OR ELSE.
As another step to archieve this goal (weaken resistance of local farmers), government has forbid the export of goods produced or quota them only by authorisation of government (authorisations that are frequently delayed by "burocracy"), weaken even more oppositor farmers. They even have great difficultyes to have loans from banks... Many of them has selled their land very cheap.
This problem is very complex and can take a lot of space in the forum. But maybe with this you can understand it a little more.