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The Sights and Voices of Dispossession: The Fight for the Land and the Emerging Culture of the MST (The Movement of the Landless Rural Workers of Brazil)

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Macaxeira

'Land complex of 50 thousand hectares in the municipality of Paraupebas, in the southeast of Pará, belonging to several farmers. Known as the Macaxeira Farm, in this area the families of the victims of the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre, which took place on April 17, 1996, when nineteen Sem Terra people were murdered, are settled' (Fernandes, Bernardo Mançano e Stedile, João Pedro. Brava gente: a trajetória do MST e a luta pela terra no Brasil. São Paulo: Editora Fundação Perseu Abramo, 1999, p. 143, n. 10). See ELDORADO DOS CARAJ-S.

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November 2002

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MACAXEIR049

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