The MST (Movement of Landless Rural Workers) does not have high expectations for the implementation of agrarian reform during the third term of President Lula (PT), says Ceres Hadich, of the group’s national leadership, who cites as obstacles the context in which the PT member was elected and budgetary issues.
Hadich cites data from Incra (National Institute of Colonization and Agrarian Reform) which shows that around 140,000 families are camping while waiting for land. “Based on the data from Incra itself, we know that this will perhaps not cover 20,000 or 25,000 of the families registered on the register of camped families,” he says.
“What we see the government doing within the limits of its possibilities, and not budgetary, is the regularization of land, the installation of families within the framework of already existing settlement projects, the regularization and recognition of quilombola areas, facts which are very important, but which go beyond this direct confrontation with the demand for the struggle for land in Brazil”, he underlines.
The MST national leadership member says one of the obstacles to land reform was the president’s need to work with groups that represented interests opposed to the claim.
Therefore, Hadich asserts, although the MDA (Ministry of Agrarian Development and Family Agriculture) was recreated, it was not equipped with the necessary structure to implement the land redistribution policy. “Today we do not have a budget in the MDA portfolio that corresponds to the needs that we have today in Brazil to carry out agrarian reform,” he says.
She affirms that, during a possible fourth term of the PT member, the debate on agrarian reform will gain weight. In the meantime, he said, the group will continue to mobilize, “encouraging the struggle for agrarian reform, continuing to put pressure on the government to settle families and help develop the colonies that already exist in Brazil.”
“More than that, let us also highlight the possibility of having, in fact, a clear project to carry out agrarian reform in the country on the horizon of a new government,” he affirms.
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