News and Updates: Brazilian Government

On Thursday morning, August 13, tractors brought down the structure of the Eduardo Galeano Popular School

At the moment, about 200 men from five different battalions are at the Quilombo Campo...

A little over a year ago, the MST asked for international solidarity to stop the eviction of 450 families from the MST settlement in the state of Minas Gerais. Because of the large outpouring of support and solidarity, the...

Put together by social movements, project seeks credit lines and technology to support water access, among other demands

Congress may yet vote this week on a proposal that would...

MST comrades and friends
 
This morning we received the news of SUSPENSION of the eviction indefinitely of Luiz Beltrame Settlement. The Federal Regional Court (TRF) was in favor of our action as settled families.
 
The MST understands that this is a partial victory, that we need to...

In an exclusive interview, Kelli Mafort, from the national coordination of the MST, talks about the National Plan to be launched this Friday (June 5)

The Landless Rural Workers...

Experts are highlighting two main factors behind the intensification of disease outbreaks and humans' increased vulnerability to them:

  • The destruction of natural ecosystems and habitats, the...

In April of 1996, 21 farm workers were murdered; those who survived turned their pain into struggle

It was Wednesday, around 4pm, on the 17th of April 1996. Around fifteen hundred people...

The MST coordinator launches a book on agrarian reform in the world and proposes that in Brazil it should be based on agroecology

The...

Dilma

The former President participated in the political event of the First National Meeting of Landless Women in Brasília on March 7.

The First National Meeting of Landless Women held a Political and Cultural...

On the morning of Monday March 9, the women of the Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) occupied the Ministry of Agriculture in the capital Brasilia. 3,500 workers from 24 states in Brazil are participating...

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