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- Title
Entre "grileiros" e "gatunos": a Guerra de Perdidos e a privatização das terras no sul do Pará.
- Authors
de Melo Pessôa, Fábio Tadeu
- Abstract
On October 27, 1976, as Brazilian National Institute for Colonization and Agrarian Reform (INCRA) personnel, with the tactical support of 18 police officers, tried to delimit and divide a vast tract of land previously owned by the Central Brazil Foundation (FCB), an armed conflict ended in the killing of two police officers and the injuring of many others. This conflict happened in the region between two small towns, Boa Vista and Perdidos, in the Southern part of the Brazilian state of Pará. This episode became later known as "The War of Perdidos". This armed confrontation is an example of the inconsistent and conflicting projects to occupy and populate the Brazilian Amazon region during the military dictatorship (1964-1985). These projects generated a sharp increase in local land speculation, illegal tenancy, land grabbing and violent conflicts. The present article aims to reflect on this complex scenario based on the documents produced by the Brazilian Nation Information Service (SNI) and on the existing social memory about the conflict.
- Subjects
BELEM (Brazil); BRAZIL; KILLINGS of police; DICTATORSHIP; WAR; LAND speculation; LAND economics; LAND reform; COLLECTIVE memory; REAL property acquisition; SMALL cities; PEASANTS
- Publication
História Unisinos, 2022, Vol 26, Issue 2, p359
- ISSN
1519-3861
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4013/hist.2022.262.13