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...problems associated with the means with which Mugabe is carrying out the land reform. According to data from the Commercial Farmers Union, compiled from lists published by the government in Feb. 2002, several hundred prime farms have been allocated to wealthy government ministers and their associates, rather than the landless farmers land reform is supposed to benefit. One member of Mugabe’s cabinet told the government-owned Herald newspaper recently that farmers should, “make sure they are members of Zanu-PF or risk losing land.” This program is not merely...
...lion tamarins, a gravely endangered species of New World monkey found only in the Pontal and its vicinity. Soon, however, the couple realized that to save the tamarins, they would have to save the forest that sheltered them--and that turned into a huge challenge. In 1995, Brazil's Landless Movement decided to resettle thousands of poor people on land bordering the Morro do Diabo park and smaller patches of forest nearby...
...Pontal had already been so rapaciously deforested that less than 2% of its native tree cover remained. So when the landless settled next to the remnants of forest, Claudio feared they would chop down the trees for fuel and lumber and destroy animal populations through hunting. Instead, when he and Suzana began to talk with local leaders, they found allies rather than enemies. The landless, they found, were in desperate need of almost everything, including wood. Yet they were willing to try to fill that need in ways that were not environmentally ruinous...
BRAZIL Farm Invasions The government faced a growing crisis over land redistribution after peasants occupied President Fernando Henrique Cardoso's family farm and that of a close business associate. Police arrested 16 leaders of the MST landless movement after a 600-strong invasion of a farm belonging to Cardoso's sons. Within 24 hours, 150 members of the mst invaded the farm of a presidential business associate in retaliation for the arrests. The national ombudsman resigned in protest at police heavy-handedness...
...Privacy Bill, which will ban foreign correspondents from the country and impose heavy fines and jail terms on local reporters for "unethical journalism." For the past two years Mugabe has tried to secure support for his zanu-pf party by distributing farmland forcibly wrested from its white owners to landless black Zimbabweans. The looked-for political gains have not materialized as the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC), led by Morgan Tsvangirai, won 57 of the 119 constituency-held seats in June 2000 elections. Since then bands of ZANU-PF thugs have attacked opposition offices and attempted to intimidate voters...