On February 10th, the Ministry of Justice and Public Security published, in the Official Gazette, official act nº 1.147, which formally authorized the deployment of troops from the National Public Security Force (FNSP) to the Governador Indigenous Land, in the municipality of Amarante do Maranhão. The deployment of National Force troops to the state of Maranhão occurs in a context of increasingly acute land conflicts in the Brazilian countryside, and especially in Maranhão, the national leader in occurrences of agrarian conflicts.