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Weekly Report - 19 January 2012 (WR-12-03)
COLOMBIA: Santos kick-starts land restitution
The choice of the estate was symbolic, but that will hardly matter to the 304 families who received the first 4,225 hectares (ha) redistributed by the Colombian government as part of its flagship Law of Victims [WR-11-21]. President Juan Manuel Santos himself handed over the titles to the parcels at the La Cata ranch in the north-western department of Córdoba, which used to belong to three close associates of the infamous drug trafficker Pablo Escobar, the brothers William, Francisco and Gerardo Moncada. However, giving land back to the rightful owners is only the beginning of a slow process to get Colombia back to where it was two decades ago; only then can substantial rural development and reform begin to take place.
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