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<h1 class="reader-title">Platform For Peasant Struggle Holds
Anti-Imperialist March Against International Aggressions</h1>
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<p>Merida-Duluth, January 14, 2019 (<a
href="http://www.tatuytv.org/">tatuytv.org</a>/<a
href="http://venezuelanalysis.com/">venezuelanalysis.com</a>)
In the region of “Sur del Lago”, located
between the Venezuelan states of Mérida and
Zulia, an Anti-imperialist Peasant March was
held amidst the rising tensions in the lead up
to January 10th swearing in of President
Nicolás Maduro. This mobilization was
organized by local, autonomous peasant,
communal and revolutionary organizations of
the National Platform for Peasant Struggle, in
order to demonstrate rejection for the
intensifying foreign aggression against their
nation.</p>
<p>Around twelve rural organizations from the
bordering states of Zulia and Mérida
participated in the anti-imperialist
mobilization. This march was just one of the
activities that have emerged as a part of the
national agenda established by the Platform
for Peasant Struggle after the epic Admirable
Peasant March that began on July 12 of last
year. The peasants marched more than 400
kilometers, on foot, to present their
solidarity, but also five very clear demands
for the President and the revolutionary
government; the legalization of rescued lands,
justice for the victims of targeted
assassinations and landowner financed
violence, promotion of a national plan for
cultivation, the restructuring of agrarian
institutions, and establishment of a
Constituent Peasant Congress. Although the
appeals of the Platform for Peasant Struggle
were heard by President Maduro on August 2nd,
the government has yet to respond to the
majority of their demands.</p>
<p>The peasants of “Sur del Lago”, on the other
hand, as well as peasants and small farmers
from elsewhere in the country, continue to
uphold their side of the bargain, fighting for
food security through their own production of
cattle, milk and other agricultural products.</p>
<p>On January 10, just two days after the
Anti-Imperialist March, José "Caballo" de La
Cruz Márquez a 54 year-old farmer and peasant
leader from the “Sur Del Lago” region was
murdered by an armed gang, presumably hired by
a large landowner for taking part of the
recuperation of unproductive lands alongside
three hundred peasant families.</p>
<p>The death of José de La Cruz marks the fifth
peasant assassination since the Admirable
Peasant March in July and August 2018.</p>
<p>There have been more than 300 peasants
murdered by hired assassins and landowner
financed violence over the last 19 years.</p>
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