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The year 2013 won’t be missed by the Landless throughout the country. Regarding the struggle for land, the balance is positive, due to the demonstrations, marches and...
In an historic trial, a jury sentenced ruralista Mark Prochet to 15 years and nine months in prison for second degree murder, resorting to
the defense that the victim was indefensible and had...
by Joao Pedro Stedile, National Coordination of the MST
It is usual to take advantage of the year-end period, forever doing the critical balance of losses, achievements and progress in...
Dear Comrades José Dirceu and José Genoíno,
The National Directorate of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) has been following with indignation the Judgment of Exception and unjust conviction.
We vehemently repudiate the action of the Brazilian judiciary, especially the Supreme Court (STF), servant to the ruling class...
Last Tuesday morning (10/15), 5000 peasants, members of the MPA (The Small Farmers Movement), occupied Monsanto’s 36th Research Unit located at the Nilo Coelho irrigation district in Petrolina, in the...
On May 25, 2013 over two million people marched and protested against agribusiness giant Monsanto. See coverage from USA Today,...
The Pará court condemned, at the end of the night this Thursday (September 19, 2013), the plantation owner Vitalmiro Bastos de Moura,
“Bida,” to 30 years in prison, initially without...
According to the judge, the request that the accused be arrested is appropriate given so...
By Iris Pacheco of the MST's website
The Dilma government is responsible for the worst figures of land expropriation of the last 20 years. In 2012, only 28 rural estates met the decreed target. No real estate has been expropriated thus far in 2013. During the first term of this year, social movements in the countryside undertook several...