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This Land Is Their Land

The Landless Workers Movement claims a big victory in southern Brazil.

By Michael Fox

SÃO GABRIEL, BRAZIL—The three-day, 30-mile march stopped before the main gate. Hundreds of exhausted farmers from Brazil’s Landless Workers Movement (MST) fanned out along the fence. On the other side of the gate was the Southall Plantation, which for the last six years had been at the heart of a relentless struggle for land in southern Brazil. Two people slammed metal… return to article

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