Colombia: Large Land Owners Seek to Tighten Grip on Land Stolen from Colombia’s Displaced Farmers

May 27, 2016 | Thomas Graham, Colombia Reports
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Senators with ties to large landowners have proposed a change to the Colombia’s Victims Law that would make it much harder for displaced farmers to reclaim land stolen by paramilitaries and sold to ranchers. Coalition senator Antonio Guerra from the coalition Radical Change party proposed to change the Victims Law that was enacted in 2011 to return around 8 million hectares, an area larger than Costa Rica, that had been stolen by paramilitary forces.