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The 2020 closure of the Secretariat of Agrarian Affairs

Dossier
Land and property for foreigners15-tierra-propiedad.md
Domain
Who may hold land, and on what titletierra-propiedad
Room
Land/tierra
Audited
Audited

The Secretariat of Agrarian Affairs (SAA), the body that recorded and mediated land conflicts, was closed in 2020 by the Giammattei government as an austerity measure; the closure of SEPAZ and the SAA was announced on 1 Apr 2020 (República, checked in audit). Impunity Watch analyzed that closure as part of the dismantling of the peace-accord institutions. The defunct SAA's conflict database is not published; for a property's conflict history the dossier points to the SAA archive and to COPRECON, created in 2025.

The research is written in English; quoted figures, source names and the titles of legal instruments stay in the language their source published them in.

Figures

Anuncio del cierre de SEPAZ y SAARepública
1-abr-20202020

Caveat

the defunct SAA's conflict database is not published

Sources

Organizations named in the answer

  • Secretaría de Asuntos Agrarios (SAA)Body that recorded and mediated land conflicts; its archive is the historical reference for agrarian conflictPublic agency
  • RepúblicaReports on the closure of SEPAZ and the SAA (2 April 2020) and on the CABI/Cámara del Agro study of the impact of land invasions (14 September 2020)Other
  • Impunity WatchPolicy brief 'La paz en riesgo' (Peace at Risk) on the closure of the peace institutions (SAA, SEPAZ)Other

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