Hunger skyrocketed in Brazil during the tenure of former president Jair Bolsonaro. 33 million Brazilians, some 15% of the entire country, are now food insecure according to official statistics. As Brazil’s poorest were abandoned to deal with the overlapping crises of COVID-19 and inflation, the MST, or Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement, stepped in. With 20 million hectares of reclaimed land under their control across 1,200 municipalities, the MST possessed the necessary base of land and labor to effectively make a difference for millions of Brazilians. TRNN reports from the ground in Brazil to investigate how the largest social movement in the Americas is simultaneously eliminating hunger, seizing land for the tillers, and fighting for agrarian reform.
Not to sound too much like a right wing crank, but it does get supremely annoying when people online, who for the most part are white, try to use either indigenous or POC as an argument in themselves. Also when liberals claim in anyway to speak for indigenous people in the Americas, they can just be assumed to be making shit up wholecloth, or they’re quoting some gusano in florida.