Abstract

ALVES, Fernando Antonio. Between FARC and MST, between the violence in the field and the state police in Latin America: different aspects of historical agrarian conflict in Brazil and Colombia. memorias [online]. 2012, n.17, pp.303-339. ISSN 1794-8886.

This study aims to give an overview of major social struggles in Latin America developed in recent years, particularly in relation to land disputes, resulting in the emergence of two distinct historical and rural movements: the Movement of Landless Rural Workers - MST in Brazil and FARC - Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia. It's intended to establish to what extent these movements emerged within the context of excluded social groups, who sought in the field and through the peasant struggle, various forms of claims of rights in various social situations, resulting in diverse ways and different degrees of the use of force and violence in the countryside. Thus, we discuss to what extent the agrarian social conflict resulted in a reaction by the powers that, within a class reality, during the period of democratization of Latin American nations, from the perspective of constitutional regimes seated in a democratic state, an anomalous state police, rather than the exercise of fundamental rights such as freedom of assembly and association. Furthermore, a process of increasing criminalization of the MST in Brazil, as occurs in clashes between the government and the FARC in Colombia, contributed to a process of militarization of the repressive apparatus of the state, which doesn't contribute to the maintenance of peace and the promotion of social inclusion in Latin America.

Keywords : Agrarian conflicts; social movements in the field; violence; state police; democratization.

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