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Latin America: February 2003

"Cutting the Wire": The Landless Movement in Brazil

By: Jan Rocha

Description: "The emergence at the end of the twentieth century of a mass organization of landless peasants demanding land reform can only be understood when viewed against Brazil's archaic land structure, where 1 percent of landowners own 46 percent of the land and government inspectors are still discovering slave labor on Amazon cattle ranches."

Volume: 102
Issue: 661
Page: 86

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