APURE - ACHAGUAS/Jorge Rodríguez: The Livestock Protection Act will be approved in the second half of June

Published at: 28/05/2026 05:48 PM

During his participation in an assembly with agricultural and livestock producers from the state of Apure as part of the second phase of the National Pilgrimage for a Venezuela without sanctions and in peace, the president of the National Assembly (AN), deputy Jorge Rodríguez, announced that by the month of June the parliament will approve a new Law for the Protection of Livestock Activity.

After recalling that the current legislation predates the Bolivarian Constitution approved in 1999 by Venezuelans, the head of the Venezuelan parliament pointed out that among the flaws in the current law is the non-classification of serious crimes such as cattle theft.

“The current law is from 1997, it is preconstitutional, prior to our constitution and we cannot continue working with laws prior to the Constitution,” he said, while informing that as part of the actions for the drafting of the new legal text, working groups will be set up with the country's livestock sector.

“We are committed, and we are going to be here setting up a table next week and the second half of June the Law for the Protection of Livestock Activity will be approved,” he said and indicated that these tables will also discuss the issue of credit for the financing of producers.

“At that table we will also study with you the issue of credits for livestock production, because sometimes the logic of the capital and the cities is not the same as the logic of the countryside,” he explained.

Mazo News Team