Government Hands over 4,500 Hectares of Land to Victims of the Conflict

Of the 4,574 hectares delivered, 680 were recovered by the Society of Special Assets (SAE), 3,254 by the Victims' Reparation Fund and 545 correspond to a wasteland in Cimitarra, Santander. The event is part of an agreement signed in 2024 between the SAE and the National Land Agency (ANT), which provides for the distribution of 24,336 hectares for agrarian reform in the region. READ ALSO Colombia establishes a temporary location zone for the 33rd…

The Government handed over more than 4,500 hectares in the Magdalena Medio region to victims of the armed conflict who were expelled from that area because of the violence exercised, mainly, by paramilitaries from the United Self-Defense Forces of Colombia. “We are handing over these 4,500 hectares, which we have already evicted and removed many occupants, ex officio criminals, from those farms,” said the director of the National Land Agency (AN…