Hundreds of Peasant Families Evicted in Pará, Brazil
Featured image: Police deployment in Pará. Source: A Nova Democracia.
Around 1000 peasants were evicted from occupied lands in southern Pará, on 15th of December, A Nova Democracia (AND) reports. The families were linked to the Landless Workers Movement (MST) who occupied lands of several latifundia and founded the camp Land and Freedom. They are part of a larger contingent of peasants living in one of the biggest peasant camps in Brazil, with 5,000 families in total.
The old State used around 120 civilian and military police officers, as well as a Special Missions Command. The camp has existed for three years, and the peasants denounced that the “criminal and immoral latifundium” of the Miranda family stole the land. The peasants denounce that they occupied the lands as an answer to the silence from the Luiz Inácio government, of the “Workers” Party (PT).
AND reports that while the peasant masses inevitably join the path of the struggle for land, the national leadership of the MST discourages any attempt of seizure of land and integrate itself within the institutional negotiation and feed the old bureaucratic-big landlord State.
