Posts Tagged ‘Agroindustria’
The déjà vu of untitled lands: the Constitutional Court can prevent us from returning a century
“A large proportion of the untitled land concessions between 1849-1872 was for the extraction of cinchona bark (…) Among the merchants of the bark who obtained concessions were persons with significant fortunes, and others who had been high officials of the State or had ties to the government. Among them there were also foreign investors. Other export products such as tobacco, rubber, indigo and coffee had a similar fate (…)
Read MoreWhat Are the Roots of the Countryside?
Today, in the middle of Bogotá, people say that the roots of business are in the countryside.
Read MoreLaw of Fallow Lands: Great Business through the Conquest of the Last Agricultural Frontier
The sociologist Alfedro Molano, one of the few scholars who studied peasant migrations in the national geography, tells many stories about the rural countryside that are, in fact, a single one.
Read MorePlanetary Life
We as human beings are raised with the idea of being intellectually and morally superior to the rest of living beings.
Read MoreRural Development that Favor Whom?
The rural development model proposed by the National Government, far from facilitating the “democratization” of the land, promotes its concentration and use in favor of large investors.
Read MoreHard Strike Against Sophisticated Strategies
The devious interpretation of the lawyers from Brigard y Urrutia of Law 160 of 1994, which allowed the accumulation of previously vacant lots by companies like Riopaila, has provoked different reactions. One of those was support from Senator Armando Benedetti, who said that, while the transaction was morally reprehensible, there was no doubt that it was legal.
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