MST’s Stedile: “Activists shall not fear, we are fighting for justice”
Landless leader told Brasil de Fato that, despite threats, MST will not back off from social struggle

Landless leader told Brasil de Fato that, despite threats, MST will not back off from social struggle

Documents distributed to INCRA's managers provide for the interruption in the purchase and demarcation of land for the creation of [agrarian reform] settlements. The agency says measure is temporary, but does not say how long it will last.
Police do not rule out any hypothesis, but relatives of those executed point to political crime

On Saturday night (December 8, 2018), two heavily armed masked hitmen attacked an MST encampment and murdered two MST militants José Bernardo da Silva and Rodrigo Celestino while they were eating dinner.

After 24 days of resistance against the injunction that ordered the eviction of the Quilombo Campo Grande Camp families, Judge Marcos Henrique Caldeira Brant suspended the decision of the Agrarian Court. He considered that the peasants "have occupied the rural area for a considerable period, approximately 14 years, with cultivation of coffee plantations among others, including buildings in which their families live," as the document states.
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According to the coordination of the Movement in the region, the attack occurred around 21 hours when a vehicle passed by the enampment shouting the name “Bolsonaro.”

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