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This 7 page paper discusses the Landless Workers Movement (MST), explaining how it came to be, the events that acted as a catalyst for the establishment of this group. This is one movement that began as a massive grassroots campaign and it continues to be so, with no formal organization. The purpose of this movement is the redistribution of land in Brazil, correcting the extreme inequity that exists, e.g., 1 percent of the population owns nearly 45 percent of the land. The essay discusses the origins of the MTS, purpose and goals, actions, successes and so on. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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charge of land distribution, pursued a policy of settling landless families in frontier lands that were inconveniently distant from markets and that was malaria-infested land (Petras, 2000). Over 30 years
of its existence, INCRA settled less than 7 percent of landless rural families (Petras, 2000). To understand the landless workers movement, it is important to take a brief peek
into the history. In 1965, a military coup put an economic and political model in place that subordinated Brazil to the interests of international finance capital at the expense of
the Brazilian people and specifically, at the expense of the Brazilian poor (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). The poorest people work the land but do not own any of it, hence
the term "landless" (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). There are currently 4.8 million landless workers in the country (Plummer and Ranum ,2002). In the pursuit of modernizing, the country of
Brazil transformed from being a 75 percent rural society to 75 percent urban, having had half the population migrate to cities in search of better jobs and a better lifestyle
(Plummer and Ranum, 2002). Most of the people did not realize their dreams (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). The majority simply moved from rural poverty to urban poverty (Plummer and Ranum,
2002). Between 25 and 50 percent of every citys population live in shantytowns (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). There is a huge disparity in the society today - 1 percent of
the landowners own 44 percent of all the land in Brazil (Plummer and Ranum, 2002). The agriculture resources in Brazil have been allocated primarily to subsidize and promote agro-business
and large export-oriented farmers (Petras, 2000). This promotion and subsidizing has been called "agricultural modernization" by political, military and government leaders in the country (Petras, 2000). The result was
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