Ethan: Ok this is where the dichotomy comes in. about 20% of Sem Terra are truly landless peasants looking for a fairer distribution of land so that they can work and keep themselves ( I do not deny that the distribution of land here in Brazil is not unequal). The other 90% can be split up between the various criminal organisations that are agitating to line their own pockets and the landowners that are trying to get even more land for themselves. the Sem Terra is not a legitimate force for change, it is, like so many things here in South America, a farce that is doing more damage than good. Still the poor are kept poor and the rich (landowners, industrialists, criminals...sort of synonyms really)are out to get richer. The thing is it's so well orchestrated by the media ( Read Globo...Roberto Marinho the journalist who owns Globo was a military lackey during the military regime here and further helped keep the people ignorant in his approved programming) and those in the government that have the power to paint over the discrepencies in what the 'movement'is doing.