Juan Carlos Salinas reports for El Deber:

WAITING FOR THE REGULATION TO PROTECT THE PROPERTY RIGHTS

Producers object to fragile penalty for land invaders

Today the agricultural sector analyzes the Act against the land takeovers. They seek that punishment, years in prison, is greater. The Government says that it will have a range of urban and rural [cases].

In the Bill against outlets that today will be analyzed by the producers there is a point that worries the sector and is the referred to the years of prison for people engaged in land takeovers, who are found guilty.

Julio Roda, President of the National Agricultural Confederation (Confeagro), said that according to the first data they have, is being handled a four-year sentence for perpetrators of land takeovers and productive farms, and that their judgement is a soft punishment for this illegal activity that generates legal instability and economic losses.

Roda said that other points of the document and hoped that this law be approved until the end of the year will be analyzed during this day.

The scope of the standard

The President of the Chamber of Deputies, Betty Tejada, pointed out that the draft law against the taking of property is a short standard, of immediate action and that it will have a scope for the rural and urban properties.

On the last point, Tejada said that problems of take overs in the urban area is so worrying as it is in the field, and in the new standard, it seeks that the term subjugation is incorporated in the Penal Code that punish people who commit this crime.

As for the action of the law, Tejada remarked that it will have an immediate action, because it will punish flagrantly those persons who are in a property.

“If the owner shows the property rights or is in process, immediately follows the eviction of the overbearing. Then continue with the investigations. The idea is to protect investment and production in the agricultural sector”, said Tejada.

Over the years in prison and the order of the producers that they are older, Deputy pointed out that the document is not closed and the proposal for the sector to be taken into account.

“Still nothing is closed. The key is to speed up the work, as we have the express request of President Evo Morales to complete this standard and adopt it by new year’s eve. I hope that it can fulfill that goal, is important for the agricultural sector,” said Tejada

In detail

Santa Cruz, the most affected

According to the agricultural Chamber of the East, in the region about 80 properties are affected by intake of its facilities.

Before January 22

Tejada said that the standard should be approved before the Assembly goes on  holiday.

An old promise

Since 2011, they are working to enact a law that punishes the land traffic.

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