Farmers balance belongings on top of their heads as they wait for the authorization from police to march towards the Miraflores Presidential Palace to seek an audience with President Nicolas Maduro, in Caracas, Venezuela, Wednesday
VENEZUELAN President Nicolas Maduro welcomed a group of farm workers at Miraflores Palace yesterday, calling their 21-day march “necessary to awake the country’s national consciousness.”
The campesinos started their march on July 12, travelling more than 250 miles from Portuguesa state capital Guanare to the nation’s capital Caracas in a bid to make their voices heard and assert their rights.
They represented a number of farm and land workers’ collectives that have come together as the Platform of Peasant Struggles. They presented a number of demands and proposals for agrarian reform.
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