Grilagem de terras e assassinatos: a revolta camponesa em Moju/PA na década de 1980

Abstract

This article analyzes the conflicts over land tenure that occurred in the municipality of Moju in the 1980s and what led peasants in the Jambuaçu region to invade the city in early 1988 in an orchestrated action that sought to end violence rampant that occurred there. I try to show how the agro-industrial projects, when installed in this municipality, were gradually changing the existing scenario, often being the main causes of the clashes between rural workers and owners of the enterprises supported by the state and by the use of police force and the gunfire that caused even the death of several people, including PDS councilman Edmilson Soares, unionist Virgílio Serrão Sacramento and farmers “Canindé” and “João”, the latter two cases being the 'trigger' of the peasant revolt that occurred there.