MST encampment under attack by gunmen in Pará

The attacks began on Monday and three pickup trucks help in the criminal action.

By Carlinhos Luz
Da Página do MST

This week, the encampment Hugo Chaves suffered another violent attack of gunmen and from the plantation owner Osvaldo Saldanha. The attacks began last Monday and three trucks help in the criminal action.

The gunslingers set up a barricade in Vila Sororó, populated near the encampment.

The MST Condemns the Coup

In a statement, the Movement states that the solution to the political, economic and social crisis we are experiencing is the unconditional defense of democracy

From the MST web site:

In a statement, the MST rejects the parliamentary-media-judicial coup installed in Brazil and sees the unity of the countryside and cities as crucial in the struggle for the restoration of democracy in Brazil.

Brazil’s Popular Front Rejects Coup

After the Senate’s voting on the impeachment against Dilma Rousseff, which put the last nail in the coffin of Brazilian democracy with 61 votes in favor of the impeachment and 20 against, the Popular Brazil Front, which gathers over 60 unions and popular movements, launched a communiqué rejecting the coup and supporting the overthrown President Dilma Rousseff.

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