In Northern Brazil, Landless Families Resist to Persist: For one MSt occupation, the constant threat of eviction has intensified under the Bolsonaro government's accelerated attack on the Amazon.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Horn, Claudia
- Source
- NACLA Report on the Americas. Dec 2021, Vol. 53 Issue 4, p344-348. 5p.
- Subject
- *EVICTION
*FOOD sovereignty
*REAL property acquisition
*FAMILIES
*LAND tenure
*FARM produce
*LEGAL rights
- Language
- ISSN
- 1071-4839
As we ride the bus back to Belém from the Terra Cabana community, landless activist Moisés points out the bloom of construction sites along the main and only highway through this section of northern Brazil. Terra Cabana is part of the MST's northeastern "Cabana" chapter, named after the 19th-century popular revolution known as I Cabanagem i that sought to liberate the Paraense people from the Empire of Brazil. [Extracted from the article]