The President (PT) his first visit to a settlement of the (landless rural workers movement) in his third term.
The trip to Campo do Meio, in southern Minas Gerais, 335 km from Belo Horizonte, is considered a gesture of approaching the president with the movement after a series of disagreements among its leaders with government representatives.
This Friday’s ceremony takes place at Eduardo Galeano School, rebuilt after being demolished in 2020, amid confrontations of the MST with the Military Police for the repossession at the Campo Grande Quilombo camp.
The government will be announced by the government of 12,297 lots in 138 settlements, including Quilombo Campo Grande, in 24 states of the country. Another highlight is the launch of the rural unfolding, recently released producer debt negotiation program.
“The act where there is perhaps the largest conflict for land in the country represents the resumption of the Brazilian State. This puts us again in a harmonious relationship with the government, but the MST has its autonomy,” says Silvio Netto, MST leader in Minas.
He avoided directing criticism of the Minister of Agrarian Development, (PT), and said the decision to exchange the head of the portfolio is up to the president.
As showed, Lula’s allies say that this Friday’s event could serve as a kind of thermometer of the minister’s permanence.
Remember attacks and nods between the Lula 3 and MST government:
Invasions to Embrapa area
In 2023, in the first national day of land struggle and land reform (known as Red April) of the current management, the MST invaded a farm in Petrolina (PE) that belongs to (Brazilian Agricultural Research Company).
The federal company is known to be a reference in agricultural research, and the one, which chose to postpone the announcement of plans for land reform.
The movement argued that the government did not comply with the commitments to settle families at the site and invaded Embrapa’s headquarters twice, one e.
Agrarian Reform Program
In reaction to the Invasions of April 2024, the objective of expanding and giving agility to land reform in the country and said it would not “ask anyone to stop fighting”.
That same month, cousin of the then Mayor, (-Al), from the position of Regional Superintendent in Alagoas do Incra (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform).
The measure complied with the request of the MST and was articulated by Minister Paulo Teixeira.
MST leader criticism
The historical leader of the movement raised the tone of questions to government policy for land reform.
In a podcast in 2023, to the ministers, who, according to him, are mostly unaware of social struggle and are afraid of it.
Last December, he told the panel column that promises made by the Lula administration since he took office and called.
Lula’s nod the movement and criticism of bankers
One day after launching the harvest plan for 2024 and 2025 with a record figure of $ 400.5 billion last July, “it’s no longer the stédile, it’s the presidents of banks who are taking land.”
“All landowners who have agrarian debt, banks are taking their land,” the agent at the time said.
There were between leaders of the movement and the Minister of Agrarian Development on government actions regarding land reform.
In January, the leader João Paulo Rodrigues classified as “ridiculous” the number of 1,500 families settled per year.
The movement claims the settlement of 65 thousand families. Paulo Teixeira says the government has committed 30,000 families this year in one to calm MST charges.
Investigation to attack
The Olga Benário Settlement in Tremembé (SP) in January this year brought the federal management closer to the members of the movement.
Government members climbed the Federal Police to investigate the attack and, security body headed by Governor Tarcisio de Freitas (Republicans).
Possession of Uruguayan President
In a new recent gesture of approach, as invited to accompany the Brazilian delegation that participated in the inauguration of as president of Uruguay last Saturday (1st).
