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🗓️ 30 January 2024
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In 1980, poor rural workers set up camp on land owned by the rich at Encruzilhada Natalino in the state of Rio Grande do Sul. Brazil's government sent in the army to evict them and violent clashes followed. It was a formative moment in the history of one of Latin America's biggest social movements, Brazil's Landless Workers Movement (MST).
Maria Salete Campigotto was a teacher living in the camp with her husband and young son. She speaks to Ben Henderson.
(Photo: Brazil's Landless Workers Movement meeting. Credit: Patrick Siccoli/Getty Images)
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0:44.8 | Brazil's landless workers movement is one of the largest social movements in Latin America |
0:50.0 | with around 2 million members. Their aim, setting up camp on unproductive land owned by the rich |
0:56.8 | and claiming it as their own. In 1980, one of the earliest camps was established, but the government wouldn't stand for it. |
1:05.0 | They sent in the army, led by Colonel Sebastian Curio, to kick the workers out. |
1:11.0 | Curio his out. Kuryo, Kuryo, tried to manipulate the children in the camp. |
1:17.2 | He would bring them sweets and tell them to convince their parents to leave the camp. |
1:21.5 | But the children would say, we don't want sweets, we want land, which was really remarkable. That stayed with me. |
1:29.0 | This is Maria Salete Campigoto. She was a teacher living in the camp with her husband and young son. |
1:37.0 | Like millions of rural Brazilians, Salete grew up poor. Even today the country is one of the most |
1:45.8 | unequal in the world. Around 2% of the population own half of all agricultural |
1:51.5 | land. I grew up living on a farm with my parents. |
1:57.0 | They didn't have much land at all, |
1:59.0 | but from a very young age I loved the land and growing food and flowers, but I also love teaching even as a child. |
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