O cerco da empresa Suzano no assentamento Califórnia e na Vila Sudelândia: resistência frente ao agronegócio

Abstract

This paper discusses the processes brought to rural settlements in the Amazon of Maranhão from the presence of a large agribusiness enterprise. It has the general objective to demonstrate how the process of densification of land concentration in that territory, especially in the Tocantins Area, from the establishment of agribusiness projects – Suzano Papel e Celulose – it has intensified the historical processes of rural workers struggles. It also seeks to demonstrate the conditions of life and work in two rural settlements – California and Vila Sudelândia – directly affected by the mentioned company and the organizational processes of resistance derived. While methodological processes bibliographical, documentary and empirical research were conducted. The literature search was focused in the land concentration processes, especially from the Agribusiness as a development model in the Brazilian countryside. While the documentary research has focused on the SUZANO company , from the impossibility of access to the primary company data, empirical research - through qualitative sample - focused on California and Vila Sudelândia settlements. The results indicate that the spoliation of land in the Amazon of Maranhão in the context of the last decades, especially for the use of agribusiness, the example of other areas of the Brazilian Amazon, come densifying the process of land concentration and, consequently, the production of expressions of "social question" in the region.