O Vale do Tocantins e a Lei Anilzinho: a Lei dos Posseiros (1961-1981)

Abstract

The civil-military coup of 1964 brought a number of issues with regard to the issue of land conflict in the Amazon, in Para State, specifically in the Tocantins Valley appellation used by the military government to designate the Middle and Low Tocantins, which are micro-regions surrounding the city of Tucuruí which in turn houses in its territory the dam of the same name, the largest entirely domestic plant. The period analyzed here is (1961-1981), so twenty years time there were profound changes in the region. The construction of this dam, tax incentives, changes in state legislation and more the colonization projects designed by the military governments in the region, has deployed a series of events between them was the conflict over land ownership involving several subjects Indians, rubber tappers , chestnut, squatters, rural workers, allied organizations such as the phase, the prelature of Cametá, the congregation of the Sisters daughters of Charity, and the Trade Union of rural workers of Oeiras and Baiao. According to the vision of rural workers, the opposite them were government agencies and its bureaucratic apparatus, as well as squatters likely center-Southerners. Rural workers noticed the change in their way of life because they noticed the entrance of other subjects within the region that threatened their way of life and their culture, realize in times of conflicts that should unite and organize themselves, because they had tired of lose and it built its own law to Anilzinho law: the law of Squatters and created an enduring political culture that lasted more than a decade in the region.