By Joana Tavares
Portal Minas Free
It was in November of 2004. Armed gunmen invaded the Promised Land Camp (Terra Prometida), in Felisburgo, in Jequitinhonha Valley, and killed five workers. Another twenty were seriously injured, and huts and crops burned. Nearly nine years later, accused of being the mastermind of the crime, Adriano Chafik, who publicly confessed to be present on the day of slaughter,...
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Occupy Brazil: The Landless Dig In
THIS IMPUNITY MUST END!
In the beginning of 2013, another two MST leaders - Cicero Guedes and Dona Regina - were brutally murdered in the state of Rio de Janeiro. Cícero, age 48, was shot in the head on January 25, 2013, when he left the settlement on his bicycle. Regina dos Santos Pinho, age 56, was brutally murdered on February 7, 2013 in the settlement Zumbi dos Palmares, state of Rio de Janeiro.
In 2004, Andriano Chafik, a large-scale landowner in Brazil, led a massacre on a farm in Felisburgo killing five and wounding another twelve landless rural workers who were occupying unproductive land - nine years later, despite his confession, Chafik remains free and no one has been brought to justice.
This impunity must end!
PLEASE SIGN OUR PETITION FOR AN END TO IMPUNITY BELOW.
The Felisburgo Massacre: Last Saturday, February 15, 2013, about 100 of the workers of the MST and supporters of the Agrarian Reform, held an action to launch the 
Campaign for Justice for Felisburgo in the Settlement Emiliano Zapata, in Uberlândia, Triangulo Mineiro[i]. Read more here.
The Assassination of Cicero Guedes: Rural worker and MST activist Cícero Guedes was assassinated by gunmen on Friday, January 25 near the Cambahyba Mill, in the township of 
Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ). Read more here.
The Murder of Regina dos Santos Pinho: The murder of the rural farmer Regina occurs eleven days after t
he execution of Cicero Guedes dos Santos, 48, leader of the MST in Campos dos Goytacazes (RJ). Read more here.
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Seventeen years have passed since that fateful April 17. On that day in 1996, a march of rural workers organized by the MST was blockaded and attacked by military police in the city of Eldorado dos Carajás, Pará state. 19 people were killed on the spot and 2 others died days afterwards. The day of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre has officially become the National Day of Struggle for Land Reform. After 17 years...
by Wesley Lima
On April 8, the MST in Bahia started a state march fighting for Agrarian Reform. The march, which had close to five thousand rural workers without land from nine regions of the state, started in the municipality of Camaçari and continued in the direction of Salvador.
The march was named “The Fábio Santos Silva State March”, paying homage to the leader of the MST assassinated by 15 shots fired by gunmen on April 2nd in...
MST leader Fábio Santos da Silva, assassinated on April 2 by 15 shots fired by gunmen in Iguaí, in the Southwest of Bahia, was buried on April 3.
The vigil for the body began in the Rural Community of Ribeirão das Flores and afterwards the body was taken to the City Hall of Iguaí, where the city can follow and share this moment of mourning and show solidarity with the grief of the family, friends, and men and women comrades in...
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The death of Hugo Chávez represents an irreparable loss to all the peoples of Latin America.
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