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O aumento no tamanho de área visa atender unicamente ao setor ruralista e de grileiros, aliados do governo federal.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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The increase in the size of land only aims to meet “grileiros” and the rural sector's demands, both of them allies of the Federal Government.
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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A senadora pelo Tocantins: Kátia Abreu do DEM mau assumiu a relatoria da MP 458 no senado é já inicia manobras no sentido de entregar as terras da amazônia ao agronegócio e ao capital internacional, ou seja aos grileiros das terra federais!!
Global Voices in English » Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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A senadora pelo Tocantins: Kátia Abreu do DEM mau assumiu a relatoria da MP 458 no senado é já inicia manobras no sentido de entregar as terras da amazônia ao agronegócio e ao capital internacional, ou seja aos grileiros das terra federais!!
Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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The increase in the size of land only aims to meet “grileiros” and the rural sector's demands, both of them allies of the Federal Government.
Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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O aumento no tamanho de área visa atender unicamente ao setor ruralista e de grileiros, aliados do governo federal.
Brazil: Land reform or deforestation boost for the Amazon? 2009
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This area, the size of Switzerland, has effectively been outside of the control of the Brazilian government and is the realm of drug traffickers, illegal loggers and grileiros, or large land thieves who appropriate land through fraudulent (and sometimes violent) means.
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Decreeing a reserve, even if only on paper, can have a significant effect in discouraging both small squatters and large grileiros from clearing forest with the expectation of eventually receiving legal title to their claims.
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Caboclos who have been on the land for generations are approached by grileiros, land grifters, who offer them $5,000 for their 750-acre spreads — more money than they have ever seen.
The Gasping Forest Shoumatoff, Alex 2007
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The activities of grileiros continue in other locations, most recently increasing in the southern part of the state of Amazonas.
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