Page "Landless Workers' Movement" Paragraph 68

Although the MST wholeheartedly declared support for the candicacy of Dilma Roussef to the Presidency, her declarations after being elected offered the movement very qualified support: in a declaration on national broadcast in November 2010, she declared the land reform issue to be a question " of human rights ", i. e., a purely humanitarian one.

Dilma's previous record as Chief of Staff to the Presidency was one of support for economic growth targets in variance with ecological as well as land reform concerns.

And actually, it was Dilma herself who, in a radio interview before her election, repeated the old conservative hope that economic growth in general could act so as to make the poignancy of Brazilian land issues recede into oblivion: " What we are doing is doing away with the real basis for the instabilities of the landless.

They are losing reasons to fight ".