The Government (PT) told leaders of the (landless rural workers movement) that the president for the first time since the beginning of his current term on Friday (7).
The place chosen by the landless was Quilombo Campo Grande, located in Campo do Meio (335 km from Belo Horizonte), in southern Minas Gerais, and the movement plans to gather about 5,000 people to receive the president.
Government and MST leaders will meet on Monday (3) to align the organization of the event, which should have the officialization of settlements, including Quilombo Campo Grande, as well as highlighting the launch of Rural Unroll, recently launched Producer Debt Trading Program.
Lula has sought to get closer to the landless from the beginning of the year, when he crosses
In 2025, he invited them to a meeting in Brasilia, promised to visit a camp or settlement and invited, who participates in the inauguration of as president of Uruguay, on Saturday (1st), as shown by the panel column, Sheet.
Movement leaders also received with excitement the recent choice of as Minister of the Lula Government’s Institutional Relations Secretariat. She is one of the main interlocutors of the MST among the president’s allies.
MST has been charging Lula’s visit since the beginning of management in 2023. In January, the president received leaders of the Planalto Palace movement to discuss government programs, which are widely criticized by landless.
The Ministry of Agrarian Development says it has settled 71,400 families throughout 2024, but the MST disputes the data and pressures the government to settle 100,000 families that, according to them, are camped across the country.
The president’s visit to the camp happens shortly before the main national mobilizations of the MST, the journey of struggles of landless women on March 8, and especially the one, characterized by marches and invasions.
It was during the Red April of 2023 that Lula’s relationship with the MST shuddered in the current term, after the Suzano and Embrapa (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company) Cellulose Company) by the landless.
The president and his ministers hardened public treatment to the movement, which countered with criticism of the slowness of land reform and incentive for family farming.
Ceres Hadich, from the National Directorate of the MST, says that the government’s recent deliveries are still few and late, but have enormous symbolism, as they refer to areas of settlements that have been awaiting land regularization for decades. In the case of Quilombo Campo Grande, for example, the camp has existed since 1998.
“Let us not forget that we are in the third year of the Lula administration and so far has been very little made by the Ministry of Agrarian Development in relation to land reform,” says Ceres, who points out, on the other hand, that “the resumption of settlement creation through decree of expropriation for social interest is very important, and indicates a political position of the president.”
She also says that the landless expects Lula to make robust ads on Friday about encouraging food production and the development of agroecology and cooperativism.
Historically, the president’s relationship with the movement is marked by. Moments of more affinity often happen when Lula is weakened.
This was, for example, when the petista was arrested in 2018 and the landless and other militants set up in front of the Federal Police Superintendence in Curitiba for 580 days.
Shortly before, in 2016, the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff (PT), which during his government was described by the landless as a.
