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The struggle of the cooperativists was also reinforced last May when the well-known radical farmer self-defense group called the Ezequiel Zamora National Farmers Front (FNCEZ) wrote a letter to Environment Minister Yubirí Ortega, who has been focused mainly on Venezuela’s complex mining issues recently, to vouch for Mocaqueteos

Then, what seemed like a relic of the deeper problem at hand was unearthed. “Within the ministry, there is resistance to really participate with communities,” said the official. This admission revealed what had already been evident in state-level ministry’s bureaucratic bumbling.