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movimento sem terra  

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  • The Brazilian Movimento dos Trabalhadores Rurais Sem Terra (MST), or Landless Rural Workers Movement, is the most influential landless peasant movement in contemporary Latin America. The MST is a unique, family-based movement committed to the radical transformation of Brazil's unjust agrarian structure. [Source: Encyclopedia of Geography; Movimento Sem Terra]

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