Social Justice Missions of Hugo Chávez
— food — housing — medicine —
Barrio Adentro  ·  Plan Bolivar 2000  Hábitat  ·  Mercal
— education —
Ribas  ·  Sucre  Robinson I  ·  Robinson II
— indigenous rights — land — environment —
Guaicaipuro  ·  Identidad  Miranda  ·  Piar  Vuelta al Campo  ·  Vuelvan Caras  Mission Zamora
— (Bolivarian Revolution) —

Mission Zamora is a land reform program in Venezuela, created in law by the Ley de Tierras ("Law of Land"), part of a package of 49 decrees made by Hugo Chávez in November 2001. There are three components to the law: a legal limit on the size of landholdings, which varies based on conditions between 1 and 50 km², a tax on unused land holdings, and a program for distribution of government and expropriated (with compensation) unused private lands. Venezuelan citizens between the age of 18 and 25 or who head a family may join this program. They are first granted a piece of land to cultivate, and if they cultivate it for three years, they are given title to the land. This title may be inherited, but it may not be sold. Image File history File links Venezuela_flag_300. ... Venezuela under the Chávez administration has deployed numerous national social welfare programs (Misiónes or Missions) of massive scale: Misión Barrio Adentro (Mission Inside the Neighborhood) - a series of initiatives (deployed in three distinct stages: I, II, and III) to provide free, comprehensive, and high-quality community health... Jump to: navigation, search Hugo Rafael Chávez Frías (born July 28, 1954)more is the 61st and current President of Venezuela. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Logo-VeneDeTodos_Fondo_Blan. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_barrioadentro. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mission Barrio Adentro (Mission Into the Neighborhood) is a widely hailed Bolivarian social welfare program that provides free health care, dental care, and sports training to poor and traditionally underserved communities in Venezuela. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Poliodrops. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_vivienda. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mision Hábitat (Mission Habitat) is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that has as its goal the construction of thousands of new housing units for the poor. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_mercal. ... Jump to: navigation, search Mission Mercal is a Bolivarian Mission established in Venezuela under the government of Hugo Chávez. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_ribas. ... Jump to: navigation, search Misión Ribas (launched November 2003) is a Venezuelan Bolivarian Mission that provides remedial high school level classes to the five million Venezeulan high school dropouts; named after independence hero José Felix Ribas. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_sucre. ... Jump to: navigation, search Misión Sucre (launched in late 2003) is one the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_robinson1. ... Jump to: navigation, search Misión Robinson (launched in July 2003) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_robinson2. ... Jump to: navigation, search Misión Robinson (launched in July 2003) is one of the Bolivarian Missions (a series of anti-poverty and social welfare programs) implemented by current Venezuelan president Hugo Chávez. ... Jump to: navigation, search Image File history File links Mision_guaicaipuro. ... 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Three institutions were created to carry out the land distribution program: the Instituto Nacional de Tierras ("National Land Institute"), which oversees land tenancy; the Instituto Nacional de Desarrollo Rural ("National Rural Development Institute"), which oversees aid to farmers, including technical expertise and equipment, and the Corporación de Abastecimiento y Servicios Agrícolas ("Agricultural Corporation of Supplies and Services"), to help with marketing. A tenant farmer is one who resides on and farms land owned by a [[landlord{{I // Headline text Headline text Headline text Headline text History of the United States (1865-1918) Categories: Agriculture stubs ...

The plan was created for many reasons: to stimulate the agricultural sector in Venezuela in order to provide food security to the country (the only net food importer in Latin America) and more economic activity, to break up the concentrated economic power of the latifundios and redistribute wealth to the poor in Venezuela, and to discourage urbanization, which creates heavy burdens on city services in the slums of Caracas and other Venezuelan cities. By the end of 2003, 60,000 families had received temporary title to a total of 55,000 km² of land under this plan. Food security is a term used in development and humanitarian aid. ... Latin America consists of the countries of South America and some of North America (including Central America and some the islands of the Caribbean) whose inhabitants mostly speak Romance languages, although Native American languages are also spoken. ... A latifundio is a large landed estate in Latin America, like a latifundium in ancient Rome. ... A boy from an East Cipinang trash dump slum in Jakarta, Indonesia shows his find. ... City motto: Ave María Santísima, sin pecado concebida, en el primer instante de su ser natural. ...

The plan is named in honor of Ezequiel Zamora, a 19th century Venezuelan peasant leader.

Opposition

The plan met with heavy opposition: The Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce (Fedecámaras) and the Venezuelan Labor Federation (CTV) joined together to campaign for a general strike on December 10, 2001, a month after the 49 decrees were passed. When Fedecámaras head Pedro Carmona took over the presidency during the April, 2002 coup attempt, he reversed the 49 decrees Chávez had passed, including the Ley de Tierras, although this was declared null when the coup failed and Chávez returned to power. The Venezuelan Federation of Chambers of Commerce is composed of chambers of commerce (known as camera) in twelve basic trade groups: Banking, Agriculture, Commerce, Construction, Energy, Manufacturing, Media, Mining, Ranching, Insurance, Transportation, and Tourism. ... Jump to: navigation, search December 10 is the 344th day (345th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... Pedro Carmona appearing during the failed, two-day coup attempt against President Hugo Chávez in April 2002. ... Jump to: navigation, search 2002(MMII) is a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

External links

• New Left Review: "Collision in Venezuela"
• Narco News: "Land Reform in Venezuela"
• "Agrarian Reform in Venezeuela"