A luta pela terra no norte de Minas e o processo de territorialização do movimento dos trabalhadores rurais sem-terra - MST : o estudo da Brigada Camilo Torres

Abstract

This dissertation has as object of study the Camilo Torres Brigade. The Objective of our work was to analyze the organization of the Landless Rural Laborers' fight beginning from the Camilo Torres Brigade in the North of Minas Gerais State. The work has as reference the authors who discuss the Agrarian issue in Brazil and the conflicts between Brazil s Landless Rural Laborers' Movement (MST) and large estate owners, which provides a deep study on the subject here presented. A qualitative-quantitative methodology was used guided by half-structured interviews with the settlers/campers of the Sanharó Farm, the general coordinator of the Landless Rural Laborers' Movement (MST) and the agent of the Pastoral Land Commission (Catholic Church). Cartographic material, newspapers and photographs were also used. The research result shows that the fight for the land property in the North of Minas Gerais, considered from the Camilo Torres Brigade on, is a conquest of the Landless Rural Workers Movement. The results also indicate that the Brigade is a new strategy of fight for the spatialization ant territoriality of land in the North of Minas Gerais. It can be concluded that the Landless Workers Movement MST in the North of Minas Gerais, has played a major role on the fight for land and the recovery of citizenship of the excluded workers of the capitalist agriculture modernization process. The social use of land by the Landless Rural Workers Movement in the Sanharó Farm is reference for other settlements of the Camilo Torres Brigade in the North of Minas Gerais.