Weekly Report - 13 January 2004

Brazil's other land problem — involving its indigenous peoples — erupted over the year-end festivities when thousands of Guaraní­-Caiauá adopted and enhanced the tactics of the landless peasants' movement, MST, and launched an armed occupation of farms close to the border with Paraguay. At the opposite end of the country, in Roraima, it was the farmers (plus Indian allies) who mobilised to oppose the demarcation of a reservation inhabited by seven ethnic groups.