Guantánamo – The process of giving an account of the peasant boards of directors to the General Assembly of Cooperatives underway in the Yateras Municipality with the participation of more than one thousand three hundred members of the seventeen grass-root organization of the National Association of Small Farmers (ANAP).
The cooperative membership is motivated by the celebration of the thirteenth Congress of the organization in 2025 and the commemoration of the seventy-eighth anniversary of the murder of the Guantanamo peasant leader Niceto Pérez García.
The assemblies have been held in Yateras Municipality since September 7, and will continue until October 15, and it become moments of participation and expression with democratic transparency.
The peasants and cooperative members of Yatera Municipality also elect the men and women who have the responsibility of representing and directing them in the different areas, declared Yadislanca Claro Druyet, member of the Municipal Committee of the ANAP, who is responsible for the agriculture-food sphere.
The ANAP leader also declared that, in addition to the Board of Directors giving an account of its actions during the last five years, they selected the pre-candidates for members of the Committee in the different areas, the delegates to the Municipal Assembly and the pre-candidates for the XIII Congress of the ANAP, to be held from May 15 to 17 of next year.
She said that in the Yateras Municipality, they have hold eleven of the seventeen meetings of the Boards of Directors planned in this accountability process in which the debates are focused on the concerns of the farmers and ANAP’S members on the problems with banking and non-payments.
The farmers and usufructuaries of the municipality of Yateras associated with the different forms of cooperative production, become the main protagonists of these meetings in which the Boards of Directors give an account of their actions motivated by the advent of the 63rd anniversary of the ANAP and the 65th of the signing of the Second Law of Agrarian Re