Tenement Settlment of Brasiguaios in Mato Grosso do Sul
A very interesting and touching Globo Rural edition this morning about Brazilians that were forced out of Paraguay with threats and acts of violence by rural gangs associated with the Landless Workers Movement in Paraguay. They have returned to Brazil, and landless and penniless they have formed a tenement settlement along the highway in Mato Grosso do Sul near the border. I wish I had time to translate this, but I think the images speak for themselves. (For those unfamiliar with Globo Rural, they get my full endorsement as a quality news source shining the light on a lot of interesting rural issues both here in Brazil and abroad.)
Further information
Here is the Portuguese Wikipedia Link on Brasiguaios (more detailed than English version)
And here is the English version
An interesting article from 2001 on Brasiguaios from Ronald Hilton (English)
And a great article about the Brasiguaios in Paraguay from Veja Magazine (Portuguese)
