2001: Chávez deepened the Bolivarian Revolution with 49 laws approved via Enabling

In the Official Gazette 37,076, dated November 13, 2001, two laws were highlighted that impacted the interests of business sectors with certain privileges obtained in past administrations: the Organic Law on Hydrocarbons and the Law on Land and Agrarian Development.

With the approval of the National Assembly at that time, progress was made in improving the Venezuelan people through a democratic model of social inclusion and national development.

Within the framework of the second enabling regulation enacted by the president, the objective was “to eliminate large estates as a system contrary to justice, general interest and social peace in the countryside”.

After the negative reaction of the ultraconservative agrarian sector, Commander Chávez assured that these minority groups “took possession of the wealth of the lands and used to have their own dialogue, for their interests, but they never heard or consulted the peasants of Venezuela.”

The Bolivarian Revolution guaranteed Venezuelans the greatest use of their land with the new Land Law, which, with 281 articles, vindicated the right of peasants before private agrarian groups.

It also contemplates “a just distribution of wealth and strategic, democratic and participatory planning to establish the foundations of comprehensive and sustainable rural development and guarantee food sovereignty”.

Mazo News Team