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Brazil & Southern Cone - June 2006 (ISSN 1741-4431)
BRAZIL: Violence in congress adds to land debate
On 6 June more than 1,000 landless protesters linked to the Movimento de Liberação dos Sem-Terra (MLST) invaded the national congress building in Brasília. The peasants vandalised the building and reached the antechamber of the assembly room, fighting security and threatening congressmen. They were eventually stopped by the police in the most violent incident to have ever taken place in the Brazilian capital.
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