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Article: Capitalist seed: property titles for millions of Latin American peasants could make the difference between serf and citizen.(Tradetalk)
- Article from:
- Revista Latin Trade
- Article date:
- October 1, 2003
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The scenes playing out in Brazil would spook any self-respecting conservative. Hordes of landless peasants wave red flags of their political movement, chant slogans and brandish pitchforks outside the gates of large ranches. The ranchers' hired guns keep wary hands on their holsters.
In Brazil, as elsewhere in Latin America, such tableaux are becoming much more common as the landless become more militant. The specter of violence is putting tremendous pressure on even leftist leaders, such as Brazil's President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
The disparity in land ownership and, just as importantly, the lack of legal titles, are the root of vast inequities in ...