The Cost of Brazilian President Michel Temer’s Political Survival
The Cost of Brazilian President Michel Temer’s Political Survival
Expedient political alliances forged in Brasília worsen violence in the countryside.
Peasants, small farmers, and indigenous people are being massacred over land rights and environmental conflicts across rural Brazil. From January to July of this year, 52 people have been killed, according to the Land Pastoral Commission (the Comissão Pastoral da Terra, or CPT, a Catholic organization that tracks this violence). At this rate, 2017 will be far more violent than last year, when 61 people were murdered in the hinterlands – an extraordinary number that was already double the yearly average of the past decade.
The political instability generated by the...
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