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“After all, we are what we do to change who we are”, read Eduardo Galeano and recalled the words of President Petro at the inauguration of the National Farmers’ Conference on Friday 2 December. Rusbel Caminante learned that with this Convention it was hoped to coordinate peasant organizations to “build a national movement capable of soliciting the fundamental reforms that society needs in Colombia”, El Espectador.
Paying landowners for the land to be handed over to the peasants, with the slogan “We want peaceful land reform,” could be the first step, said Juana, that friend, however, the president knows that a land reform also implies a transformation in rural infrastructure, in fertilization and marketing processes and in the social and educational assistance of farmers. He stated that Colombia needs agrarian reform as a peaceful social revolution, where the budget earmarked for land purchase includes elements both to adapt it and make it productive, and to generate social, educational and collective welfare changes among the peasants and with nature. So that violence is defeated by the force of reason and productive work, where cultivating the land becomes a way of happy life, Juana, that friend, found herself in agreement with the Australian professor Germaine Greer, who stated that “The revolution is the feast of the oppressed”.
It is true, the peaceful social revolution takes place in the worker’s work and habitual activity, said Rusbel Caminante, in his way of feeling about life, in his freedom to think and make decisions, in his ability to relate to others and to nature to be happy. Aspects that go beyond the delivery of the land, for this reason the State must support and direct the Colombian farmers and not manage them, according to political interests, as has been the custom of past governments. He believed that the sector needed radical and real change, a long-term process, but one that could not be postponed. The peasants have the power to carry out such a revolution, which is why he agreed that “There cannot be a total revolution but rather a permanent revolution. Like love, it is the fundamental enjoyment of life” – Max Ernst, German artist.
Rusbel Caminante affirmed with President Petro that in “Colombia we must make food production a priority, increase profitability for the peasant producer and create associations that allow the field to be technicised”. He motivating words to promote the social revolution that peaceful land reform needs. He concluded that land reform is expected by the peasant as an indispensable input to live, he claims it as an inherent process in his long history of disappointments due to broken promises, it is part of his civic consciousness and his human capacity to participate in the necessary revolution social. You recalled that phrase exhibited by young people on the front lines during the 2021 social protests: “Revolution does not mean violence, it means mobilizing consciences. Do not be afraid!”
