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Article: A Massacre Foretold: Eldorado dos Carajas, Brazil
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- Peacework
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- June 1, 1996
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CopyrightCopyright American Friends Service Committee, Inc. Jun 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Anna Majyesi staffs the AFSC/Western Massachusetts Office.
On May 2, 1993, Arnaldo Delcidio Ferreira, union leader for the Eldorado dos Carajas Rural Workers Union, was shot dead in his home at 1:30 AM. This 56-year-old subsistence farmer had seen countless companions brutally dragged off their lands or killed in what is known in Brazil as the Zona de Volencia. Brazil's northeastern Amazo2n, a mineral- and timber-rich corridor where landless peasants struggled for land, jobs, and basic human rights for over 30 years, is largely controlled by a strong block of transnationals and latifundios, a handful of wealthy business people in Brazil's southern cities who own huge expanses of largely ...