Movimentos sociais com enfoque no Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra: criminalização, atrocidades e quebra do Estado democrático de direito.

Abstract

This monograph focuses on the Landless Workers Movement, with attention to the territorial disputes that have occurred in Brazil since its discovery. There is an analysis of the source of the problems related to the land issue until the violence committed against the peasants in the conflicts, as well as the position of the representatives of the State Judiciary in front of the numerous cases of criminal acts committed in the field. The violence that marks a large part of the territorial disputes in the field amplifies the interweaving between agrarian question and juridical question, since the peasants have claimed the state intervention in front of the crimes suffered by them. The landowners resort to the State to demand the guarantee of ownership. On the other side, the peasants seek compliance with the constitutional precept that determines the expropriation of rural property that does not fulfill the obligation of the social function of the land. In this way, the clashes end in the legal sphere, leading to the Judiciary Power the role of solving the issue. By calling on the public authorities to take action against the violence suffered by them, the peasants were confronted with disregard and, worse, the participation of representatives of the State in the crimes committed against them. Faced with this reality of dispute and violence that characterizes the Brazilian and Brazilian agrarian space, the importance of analyzing the position of the State through the Judiciary and other institutions that make up the Justice System stands out. We start from the assumption that agrarian reform is a public policy and, therefore, the responsibility of the Public Power in the face of the perverse effects of its non-achievement can not be minimized. In addition, since the territory is questioned in the conflict regulated by the State, its representatives are responsible for mediating the conflict.