Guarding the gate in Querência do Norte, Paraná
| 12/14/00 | Human Rights in Brazil, 2000 -- A report from The Global Justice Center (Centro de Justiça Global, or JG) in Brazil. Be sure to read the chapter on Agrarian Reform and Rural Violence. |
| 9/14/00 | Assassination of MST activists -- In the past week two MST militants from the state Mato Grosso do Sul were assasinated. They were Silvio Rodrigues de Souza, who was only 25 years old, and Romildo de Souza, who was 35. The crime is very emblematic of the characteristics of the struggle for agrarian reform in this state. |
| 6/14/00 | Brazil's Rural Violence -- This month in the Brazilian state of Para, the wealthy and influential rancher Jeronimo Alves Amorim received a 19-year prison term for ordering the murder of a rural union leader, Expedito Ribeiro de Souza, nine years ago. More than 1,000 activists for the landless such as Mr. Ribeiro de Souza have been killed in Brazil in the last 10 years. Only a handful of the murderers have been tried, virtually all of them low-level hired triggermen. |
| 6/8/00 | Jerônimo Amorim Has Been Sentenced to Nineteen Years in Prison -- Jerônimo Alves Amorim, the rancher charged with ordering the assassination Expedito Ribeiro de Souza, president of the Union of Rural Workers of Rio Maria, was convicted and sentenced to nineteen years and seven months of prison. This decision marks the first time in 30 years that a rancher has been tried and found guilty of crimes related to the land struggle in the state of Pará. |
| 5/15/00 | Violence in Paraná -- An eviction this morning in the southwest region of the state of Paraná near the municipality of Quedas de Iguaçu has brought Paraná to a renewed state of tension. As many as three thousand Sem Terra farm laborers are on their way now to the area 180 km from Guarapuava. |
| 5/9/00 | One more victim of the Eldorado massacre dies -- On April 17, 1996, the government declared war on our people. The massacre has not yet ended, and we are living through the slaughter with more strength today. |
| 5/2/00 | Slaughter of Landless Workers in Curitiba-Paraná -- About 500 landless agricultural workers met with violent repression this morning when trying to enter Curitiba for a daylong march and protest in front of the regional office of INCRA (National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform). |
| 4/16/00 | Repression Against The MST, Indigenous People, and Popular Movements in Bahia -- Please help us organize letter campaigns asking the Brazilian authorities to stop repressing popular movements in the region. Please write a letter. |
| 4/4/00 | Landless leader begins retrial for murder -- Testifying in the murder trial of the leader of millions of landless Brazilians, witnesses said Jose Rainha Jr. was far away at the time of the killings of two men. (AP) |
| 12/23/99 | Repression continues in Querência do Norte |
| 12/16/99 | Fear for safety / Arbitrary arrest Amnesty International is concerned for the safety of Gerson de Souza Melo, a leader of the Pataxó Hã Hã Hãi indigenous group, after he was arrested on 15 December 1999 in the State of Bahia. |
| 1999 | The Popular March to Brasilia |
| 1997 | Politically Motivated Criminal Charges Against Land Reform Activists -- Amnesty International's 1997 Brazil report. |
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