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TRANSLATION OF FARC LAW 001: LAND REFORM/CONFISCATION OF FOREIGN PROPERTY

Date Reported: Friday, May 19, 2000
Incident Type: SECURITY
Country: COLOMBIA

Incident: The following is a translation of FARC Decree 001, as reported by CARACOL Television. The decree, promulgated in early May 2000, is pending implementation in the 130 municipalities currently under FARC's administration. According to FARC spokesman Raul Reyes, it will be enforced following "FARC's assumption of power."

The FARC proposes the following:

1. Free land: The government of the FARC would freely grant land to the peasants who work it or who want to work it in accordance with the country's geographic regions.

2. Land confiscation: The guerrilla organization decrees that the properties of large landowners will be confiscated and equitably distributed among Colombians.

3. Economic units: The FARC will create the economic unit of the countryside, which will be used to work in accordance with the fertility and location of the piece of land with a minimum of 20 ha. Roads will be built to transport the crops from remote departments.

4. Writing off debts: The debts of the peasants with the State will be written off...[ellipsis as published] and the money earned from the production of their land will be reinvested.

5. Wealthy peasants: The government of the FARC will respect the property of the peasants who have worked their land all their lives.

6. Credit and aid: The FARC will grant payment facilities and supply seeds and work tools to peasants. Broad credit systems will be created. A scholarship system for technical studies by the children of peasants will be created.

7. Support prices: To maintain stable staple prices, the products of the family basket will have basic prices.

8. Land to the indigenous people: All of the land of the indigenous people will be respected and lost and exploited land will be returned to them.

9. Confiscation of foreigners' property: The land occupied by U.S. companies, whatever their activity, will be confiscated.