Bogotá, March 29 (Prensa Latina) Colombian President Gustavo Petro today assured that the land confiscated from drug dealers will go into the hands of the people and later on these land will be used to build houses.
From Villavicencio, the capital of the Meta department, the president declared that the Special Assets Society (SAE) had done an exemplary job in the country, the government website points out.
We hand over the goods seized or delivered by the drug traffickers to the people, he assured after recalling how in the past drug traffickers took possession of property as a result of their illegal dealings and then captured and extradited and then said property stayed in the hands of politicians.
Not now, Petro stressed, stressing that anything we can find out (about land ownership by drug dealers) can be passed on to ordinary and hard-working people, to the neighborhoods.
In this government, the entire country of the SAE will pass into the hands of the people, he emphasized.
He also pointed out that the land reclaimed from the drug trade is to be used to build low-income housing projects.
I think we need to change the order of priorities. Where there is more housing shortage is in the rural world, nearly four million Colombians are homeless. We should make an effort there and pay off this debt,” he added.
In his speech, he also said that his government will make home improvement a priority. We want to repair a hundred thousand houses a year. If we continue on this path, it would provide decent housing for the vast majority of Colombians,” he stressed.
Social programs are a priority in President Petro’s government of change.
Reforms in health care, jobs and pensions stand in front of Congress for its radicalization.
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