[NACLA NEWS] Monsanto’s Seeds of Corruption in Brazil

Monsanto’s Seeds of Corruption in Brazil

16 Oct 2006 | by Isabella Kenfield for NACLA

Days before Brazil’s October 1 national elections, about 300 members of Vía Campesina and the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement (MST) camped in front of the Santa Rita farm. Located in Santo Antônio da Platina in the state of Paraná, the farm belongs to Abelardo Lupion, a federal congressman of the right-wing Liberal Front Party. Vía Campesina alleges that Lupion illegally bought the farm from the U.S.-based Monsanto Corporation in return for using his political power to legalize the pesticide glyphosate in Brazil. The occupation sought to pressure the government into finishing two unresolved federal inquiries into the congressman’s alleged corruption and highlight the absurdity that Lupion was being permitted to run for reelection.

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