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CHARLIE ROSE: What do you say to those critics on the left who say you have not been as -- you have not accomplished their agenda, you have not been forceful on their side? LUIZ INACIO LULA DA SILVA (through translator): For example, just for you to understand, for almost 30 years in my life, I did the following speech. I will go and undertake...
Dear Friends of the MST,
This week we in the MST are again embarking on a campaign for Agrarian Reform. We are carrying out occupations and marches in various states that are aimed at pressuring the state governments and the federal government to immediately carry out agrarian reform, which for some time has been bogged down in our...
Since 1985, Brazilian families have in large numbers taken to the MST’s call for “bottom-up” agrarian reform. What started as a coalition of 400 families has swelled into a 1.5 million-member force that desires to shift the policy of individual land ownership to a more equitable system “based on cooperative relations among direct workers.” ......
Latin American farmers speak on rights issues
Pablo Albilal / Contributing Writer
Issue date: 9/14/07
Farmers from Latin American countries such as Venezuela, Colombia, Guatemala and others spoke Wednesday at the River Lounge in the Student Activities Center on the College Avenue campus [of Rutgers University]. The panel...
BELEM, Brazil, Sep 19 (IPS/IFEJ) - Devastation, violent land conflicts and rapid -- but short-lived -- economic growth are the traces left by deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon over the last 30 years, according to a new study...This dynamic was revealed by researchers Adalberto Veríssimo and Danielle Celentano, of Imazon (Institute of Man...
[09/10/2007] The Agrofuels Trap. By Laura Carlsen
Agrofuel development has arrived on the global stage. Just this year, the number of declarations, dollars, and development plans that have gone to agrofuels are unparalleled in any other sector. An idea that languished for decades has suddenly become the darling of politicians, big...
What do you get when you fuse the most brutal landowners of the Global South with some of the most powerful corporations of the North, such as Monsanto, DuPont, British Petroleum and Morgan Stanley? You get transnational corporations that reap billions of dollars in profits, Brazil’s landowning elite with a new lease on its degenerate lifestyle...
BRAZIL: Ethanol Divides Agribusiness
By Mario Osava
Credit:IPS/Mario Osava
RIO VERDE, Brazil, Sep 8 (IPS/IFEJ) - The expansion of sugarcane farming to produce more ethanol in Brazil has run into unexpected resistance in Rio Verde, a prosperous town in the central state of Goiás, and it is coming from agribusiness leaders....
Dear Friends of the MST,
In early Spetember, several social movements issued a statement to question the auction of the Companhia Vale do Rio Doce in 1997. The sale took place while President Fernando Henrique Cardoso was in office and was marked by peculiarities that have been going on since the transfer of the Companhia, sold for 3.3...
Brazilian Government: The Lands Occupied by Aracruz Should be Returned to the Indigenous
30/08/2007 | News
The Brazilian Minister of Justice, Tarso Genro, signed a resolution that guarantees the Tupinikims and Guarani indigenous the property of 14,227 hectares of land in Aracruz municipality (Spirito Santo state), which had been...