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The Landless Workers’ Movement, 30 Years After a Massacre

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Thirty years after the Eldorado do Carajás massacre, Brazil’s landless poor still find themselves under the heel of Latin America’s most powerful and impudent rural oligarchy.

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The MST commemorates 30 years of the Eldorado do Carajás massacre with marches in Pará, demanding justice and reaffirming memory, resistance and struggle for agrarian reform in Brazil.

Brasilia, 17 Apr (Latin Press) The book Interrupted March, by journalist Pedro Batista, regains relevance today 30 years after the Massacre of Eldorado del Carajás, one of the most violent episodes in the struggle for land in Brazil. The post Highlights book validity on massacre in Brazil first appeared on Noticias Prensa Latina.

Thousands of landless people remembered the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre, this Friday (17), in a historic session at the Legislative Assembly of Bahia. The Landless Rural Workers Movement (MST) held a political event at the Legislative Assembly of Bahia (Alba), this Friday (17), during a special session in memory of the 30 years since the Eldorado dos Carajás massacre, where 21 rural workers were murdered. Occurring on April 17, 1996, in Pará, …

Shot in the eye during the massacre of Eldorado do Carajás on April 17, 1996, José Carlos Agarito Moreira was seated and lived from the rock for 20 years, but left the land after the aggravation of the sequelae.

Brazil has recorded a total of 1,149 people murdered in agrarian conflicts from 1996, the year of the Carajás massacre, to 2025. That's an average of one death in the countryside every 10 days. The data comes from the CPT (Pastoral Land Commission) and was released this Friday (April 17, 2026) by Folha de S.Paulo. April 17th became a historic date. In 1996, military police killed 19 landless peasants in Eldorado do Carajás (PA). The group was de…

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teleSUR broke the news on Thursday, April 16, 2026.
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