Post-Coup Politics: Throwing open the Amazon to Private Tenancy
By Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
By Maria Rodriguez-Dominguez, Research Associate at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
To the MST leader, foreign capital controls the country after the institutional coup that ousted Dilma.
FORTALEZA, Brazil — Children’s squeals rang through the muggy morning air as a woman pushed a gleaming white cart along pitted, trash-strewn streets. She was making deliveries to some of the poorest households in this seaside city, bringing pudding, cookies and other packaged foods to the customers on her sales route.
A legitimate and peaceful movement, who does the Cry of the Excluded bother? Crying for health, education, security, culture, housing, land exposes the mismanagement of public resources and the inequality that plagues the city, state and country.
Thousands of people took to the streets this September 7th under the motto: "For rights and democracy, the struggle is every day"
On this holiday of September 7, popular movements and sectors of the Catholic Church organized the traditional Cry of the Excluded in various cities across the country. In the 23rd edition of the action, the protesters went the streets under the motto: "For rights and democracy, the struggle is every day".
Over the past 30 years, the MST in Bahia has decided to launch a "Campaign to Eradicate Illiteracy" in the areas of Agrarian Reform.
Conquering and building the People's Agrarian Reform also means occupying the latifundio of knowledge, recovering and valuing traditional knowledge and popularizing science.
By Brian Mier, Research Associate of the Brazil Unit at the Council on Hemispheric Affairs
Cry of the Excluded in the Federal District defends Out with Temer, democracy and national sovereignty. Mobilization will begin at 8:30 am, in front of the National Museum.
The former President spoke exclusively to Brasil de Fato and said that we need to give hope to the people that a different Brazil is possible
Actions will be sustained in the main capitals of Brazil on August 2, date in which the Chamber of Deputies will be voting on the accusations of corruption (see article below) against the putschist president Michel Temer, the purpose is to demand “Direct Elections Now!” and to push the parliamentarians not to support the president.