Memória e ordenamento territorial do espaço agrário: estudo da presença da Comissão Pastoral da Terra na organização das lutas camponesas no município de Cajazeiras - PB.

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate the involvement of Liberation Theology and later, the Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT- Sertão - PB) with memory and spatial planning of the agricultural area of the city of Cajazeiras, from its insertion in the organization of peasant struggles. Thus the Church has taken the mission to free the peasants and the land of the fences of the bosses, by being moved to the peasantry situation that was submitted to semi- slavery of circumstance. This is because historically the land in Brazil was concentrated in the hands of large landowners to the detriment of the many excluded from access to land peasants. In the midst of this scenario, in the Alto Sertão da Paraíba, came the action of materialized Church in liberation theology, especially with the arrival of Italian priests the Diocese of Cajazeiras, he heard the cry of the poor peasants, assuming thus the cause of poor. Initially, the Movimento de Evangelização Rural (MER), the Comunidades Eclesiais de Base (BECs), the Pastoral Rural and finally the Comissão Pastoral da Terra (CPT - Sertão - PB) which exists to the present day.