{"id":159854,"date":"2016-03-28T01:02:13","date_gmt":"2016-03-27T19:32:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/?p=159854"},"modified":"2016-03-28T13:23:31","modified_gmt":"2016-03-28T07:53:31","slug":"panama-farmers-want-their-land-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/panama-farmers-want-their-land-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Panama Farmers Want Their Land Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A group of farmers, whose land was allegedly taken by force by the previous regime to construct hotels to be managed by the Navy, has forcibly entered the land in Panama and are demanding the government to give them their land back.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/index.php\/panama-farmers-want-their-land-back\/panama\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-159855\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-159855\" src=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Panama.jpg\" alt=\"Panama\" width=\"639\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Panama.jpg 639w, https:\/\/www.colombotelegraph.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Panama-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 639px) 100vw, 639px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The farmers, and their families have however been surrounded by police and Navy as they continued to sit in protest demanding for their lands. During the run up to the presidential election, President Maithripala Sirisena promised to give back the land to these farmers, however even though it is over a year, he has now kept his pledge, it is learnt.<\/p>\n<p>Sources claimed that even though the government had initially planned on giving back the land to the farmers, a government minister under the current regime is keen on developing a hotel in this same area, has led to a situation which is preventing Sirsena from keeping to his promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":159855,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,2186,1,2375],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-159854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-colombotelegraph","category-featured-news","category-news","category-stories"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.3 - 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