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Brazilian Police Set Fire to Landless Workers’ Encampment During Mass Eviction

HeadlineAug 14, 2020

In Brazil’s Minas Gerais state, military police on Thursday set fire to an encampment of the Landless Rural Workers’ Movement, destroying a school and evicting 450 families from their homes. Video from Thursday’s eviction shows a tense standoff between members of the movement, known as MST, and police in riot gear. MST members first occupied the land in 1998 and built a successful cooperative growing coffee and other crops. The police raid came despite a moratorium on evictions during the pandemic.

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