Minister Julio León Heredia: 15,407 Peasant Councils have been formed in Venezuela
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Published at: 20/09/2025 05:51 PM
The Minister of Popular Power for Agriculture and Productive Land, Julio León Heredia, this Saturday, September 20, specified that to date the “organizational balance throughout the national territory is the formation of 15,407 Peasant Councils”.
“In each of them, a popular election was held with the participation of more than one million peasants mobilized since September 6,” he said in the state of Aragua, where the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro, led the Founding Congress of the National Peasant Union Ezequiel Zamora (UNCEZ).
Heredia assured that extraordinary work has been done for the organization of the rural sector, highlighting the spirit and participation of the country's peasants.
He stressed that it has been a concrete and effective task to promote the work of farmers in the country as another productive engine, which will continue to strengthen the national economy.
He also explained that as a result of these elections, each peasant council has three main spokespersons and three alternate representatives, distributed in three fundamental areas: organization and formation; productive economy; and territorial defense and national sovereignty.