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MST: Land, Justice and Rights

The Landless Rural Workers Movement – MST, a Brazilian social movement that fights for agrarian reform and social justice.

It originates in opposition to the more concentrated and exclusionary model of agrarian reform imposed by the military regime, including selective agricultural modernization, which excluded small farmers, mainly in the 1970s. The MST fundamentally seeks to redistribute unproductive lands.

The group is among the largest social movements in Latin America with a membership of 1.5 million landless peasants organised across 24 of Brazil’s 27 states.

The group is among the main social movements in Latin America, with 1,500 people in the country, organized in 24 of the 27 states in Brazil.

Since the movement’s creation in January 1984, they were killed 1.722 activists of the movement.