Land-Rights Activists End Ranch Invasion
Brazilian peasants ended a two-week ranch invasion, saying they expected to win land rights after President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva threw his weight behind reform this week.
Vans and buses flying the red flag of the Landless Workers Movement, or MST, streamed out of the ranch about 25 miles west of Brasilia.
MST lawyer Elmano Freitas said activists were leaving the ranch with a promise from Brazil’s land reform agency that they would be given some of the property.
Lula met with leaders of the movement this week and promised to speed up reforms and raise funds to redistribute land.
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