I snapped this photo last week, when the federal government came to town to negotiate the ending of the Br-163 blockade. The logo of the Agrarian Reform Agency, here shown on the door of a truck, is telling: a dove and a heart-warming slogan, "Peace on earth, peace in the countryside." In the 1990s alone, over 600 people died in the Amazonian countryside, victims of a low-intensity war in which more highly-capitalized southern Brazilians are expropriating land settled by poor colonists and indigenous groups.
Wednesday, October 10, 2007
Peace in the countryside
I snapped this photo last week, when the federal government came to town to negotiate the ending of the Br-163 blockade. The logo of the Agrarian Reform Agency, here shown on the door of a truck, is telling: a dove and a heart-warming slogan, "Peace on earth, peace in the countryside." In the 1990s alone, over 600 people died in the Amazonian countryside, victims of a low-intensity war in which more highly-capitalized southern Brazilians are expropriating land settled by poor colonists and indigenous groups.
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