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A Plot of Their Own.(Brazil's land reforms)
Thick as a truck at its base, the Brazil-nut tree rises 10 stories to an opulent crown, lord of the Amazon jungle. It takes the tree a century to grow to maturity; it takes a man with a chain saw an hour to cut it down. "It's a beautiful thing," nods Acelino Cardoso da Silva, a 57-year-old farmer. "But I have six hungry people at home. If the lumberman turns up, I'll sell." Six years ago da Silva joined hundreds of homeless peasants and stole onto one of Brazil's untended estates. After years of grief and countless protest marches, he won the right to keep 26 hectares. But making a life in the settlements has meant fighting disease, begging for loans and farming some of ...
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