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Thousands of landless peasants clash with police in Brasilia
Brazilian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at about 16,000 landless farmers marching for land reform in clashes that left 42 people hurt. The march on Brasilia on Wednesday was the latest in a series of protests rocking the nation, raising security concerns just four months before Brazil hosts football's World Cup. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesI am so surprised at the landless peasants ( are we in the 1500s?) don't like the gov't spending their U$ reserves on the Olympics.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 12:09 pm - Link - Report abuse 0How is it possible they don't see this as a good use of their reserves?
How date those people ask for better roads, schools or healthcare!
The nerve!
I am the first to admit that I do not understand here. Do I see this correctly that people who do not own land are expecting to have it handed to them free?
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:14 pm - Link - Report abuse 0MST=Communists
Feb 15th, 2014 - 03:17 pm - Link - Report abuse 0This is the freedom that we must accept? I'd rather die!
Go for it, people. Tear down injustice. Tear down unjust government. Tear down Rousseff. Hand Lulu over to Interpol.
Feb 15th, 2014 - 05:28 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“”Brazilian police fired rubber bullets and tear gas at about 16,000 landless farmers marching for land reform in clashes that left 42 people hurt. “”
Feb 15th, 2014 - 08:52 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Before any more ado, would like to correct the MP editor....these 'rioters“ are NOT landless ”farmers”...the vast majority have never worked a piece of land in their miserable lives....they are all the dregs of society , pulled together for a common cause, which is to try to get something for nothing. The police should smash their stupid skulls in.
@2, To answer your question Capt Poppy : YES, they do expect to get land for free.....their motive ? exploit the natural resources (lumber) until it's barren land, then sell it off (although THAT would be illegal), then join in another protest to get more land...and so on...a situation permitted by the government's complete incompetence in dealing with this problem. The people behind them, are linked to the federal government, and manipulate these idiots to receive huge handouts from the government , which they are “supposed” to pass on , to help these 'peasants' to develop the land in a constructive manner....the money that DOES filter down to these manipulated creeps of the MST, is then used to buy cars, cameras, and other things which have nothing to do with farming....To sum it up, these MST militants are instigated by the PT (worker's party), as a good part of the money the MST gets, is then funnelled back into the party coffers.
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Feb 16th, 2014 - 07:30 pm - Link - Report abuse 0A bit like Brussels then, but Brussels a bit more subtle, I don't believe that the EU has actually signed off any accounts in ten years.
5 Jack B
Feb 17th, 2014 - 05:23 am - Link - Report abuse 0Interesting, Jack. Thank you.
I wish the article, being in an international news site, could have given more background.
Looks like Chile will have the only female President shortly.
Feb 17th, 2014 - 08:55 am - Link - Report abuse 0@8, I second that !! gotta get rid of the FBoB....
Feb 17th, 2014 - 10:03 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Jack said it all.
Feb 18th, 2014 - 02:06 am - Link - Report abuse 0BTW, http://www.alvarodias.com.br/2014/02/militantes-do-pt-incentivaram-o-mst-a-invadir-o-supremo-tribunal/
@10 Math...when I saw the news of MST in Brasilia, and their attempt to invade the Supreme Court, to me it was obvious it had been instigated by the PT....in the same way the PT is behind many of the protests occurring in Rio and in Sao Paulo, two important States still not under the influence of the Worker's Party - their objective is obvious : destabilize the current governments with all this social unrest, and then present themselves as saviours .....
Feb 18th, 2014 - 10:42 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@11 I actually hope they win the next election and put the country in recession. The protests gets as it worse, the Olympic games gets cancelled, our real situation gets international press coverage and deluded half of the country wakes up. There is too much “forces” helping PT to get what they want, specially the media's self-censorship. They are shitless scared.
Feb 20th, 2014 - 02:38 am - Link - Report abuse 0@12..on the one hand I want the PT to get screwed in the next elections, and on the other, it might be a good idea for the country to hit rock-bottom on THEIR watch...It's just like at the beginning of 2004, when Lula took over, he claimed that all the good that came from FHC's 2 previous mandates, was exclusively to his, and the PT's credit....If they lose the presidential election end 2015, they will claim , without a doubt, in 2016, that the last 10 years chaos is the fault of the recently-elected president.....Overall, it would be a good thing for them to remain in power and be blamed for the mess....but then again, am pretty sure that Dilma would become another CFK, putting the blame on anything but her own, incomPeTent government.....one problem though, she won't have a “Malvinas” to distract public opinion...
Feb 20th, 2014 - 06:12 pm - Link - Report abuse 0She might do a lot of crazy things, but I don't think she is going act like CFK. CFK likes the bribes, CFK does care to Argentina. Dilma works with PT and does a lot of things they want, but she does not like the attention, the glamour. I think she actually believes what she does is right and that is very different from Cristina.
Feb 23rd, 2014 - 04:18 pm - Link - Report abuse 0@14...I sure hope she doesn't,,,but one's gotta remember that the PT has been lucky enough to have sidestepped the brunt of the 2008 crisis, and fooled the majority of the population....soon the FBoB will run out of excuses, and that's when the “people” might wake up from their dream of “cachaça, football and women”...
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