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Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro announced Thursday the creation of a new fund for campesinos and rural producers to help improve food production. He made the pledge during the close of the Great Congress of Campesinos, Fishermen and Rural Producers that gathered hundreds of activists. “We are advancing the agricultural and livestock plan with two very solid strategic objectives: to achieve 100% food sovereignty in Venezuela and to secure Venezuela as a strong food exporter to the world by 2030,” said Maduro at the Barquisimeto Bicentennial Fair Complex in Lara state. Widely seen as a core constituency of the Bolivarian Revolution, relations between campesinos and the Venezuelan government had become strained as the rural workers suffered as a result of the sharp economic decline under of US-led sanctions on the country. Venezuelan campesino organizations recently staged a number of protests to demand changes in state policies that favor large-scale producers and agribusiness corporations. https://venezuelanalysis.com/news/15841